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...guard military man who shifted to the foreign ministry in 1949, and under Chou's watchful eye has risen in the career ranks as an unassuming but skillful administrator. Reticent, nervous and a chain-smoker, he has little to do with policymaking and has no specialized knowledge in U.S. affairs. He was China's first ambassador to East Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Supporting Cast in Peking | 2/28/1972 | See Source »

...jumble as he can behind a pose that is half self-satire. The "Black Prince," as he calls himself in mockery, is a mannered, deadly literary duelist who slices fellow students and blundering adults into home fries with razor-edged misquotations. The Black Prince is a devilish smoker of cigarettes and a virgin, who is torn between self-disgust at this fault and contempt for the mawkishness of teen-age passion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Black Prince | 1/31/1972 | See Source »

...newspapers, magazines and billboards. In addition, each cigarette package would have to carry the tar and nicotine level of its contents and the admonition, "Warning: Danger to health increases with amount smoked. Avoid inhaling." Every cigarette must have a ring printed around it near the middle to caution the smoker that if he puffs beyond that point, he will get increased concentrations of tar and nicotine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: Ultimate Prohibition | 6/21/1971 | See Source »

...examining a device that can deliver a recorded 20-second commercial from cigarette vending machines. Called ACMRU (Audio Commercial Message Repeating Unit), the new product sits atop a cigarette machine and resembles an illuminated advertising sign the size of two shoe boxes placed end to end. When an unsuspecting smoker puts his first coin in the slot, ACMRU can launch into any one of 16 to 20 spoken messages or singing jingles from a cassette tape player concealed inside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: Smoke Gets in Your Ears | 5/3/1971 | See Source »

...fellow who would walk a mile for a Camel hardly knew what zeal means. Now that cigarette commercials on TV and radio have been banned by Congress, one dedicated smoker has volunteered to walk clear across the U.S. with a Camel sign on his back in order to publicize the brand name. His idea is only one of many received by RJ. Reynolds Industries, the nation's largest cigarette maker. An amateur strategist proposed rigging an airplane with flashing lights that would spell out CAMEL or WINSTON on night flights, and a camera fan offered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CIGARETTES: After the Blackout | 3/22/1971 | See Source »

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