Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President stayed at the luxurious ranch home of Paul Hoy Helms, a bakery president and personal friend, at Smoke Tree Ranch, a plush communal enclave of businessmen in Palm Springs. (The Secret Service picked Helms's home instead of the nearby one of Co-Host Paul Hoffman, because it is more secluded, and has a large, enclosed patio where Mamie and her mother could sunbathe in privacy.) On his first vacation day Ike was up early, worked an hour at his desk after break fast, then played 18 holes of golf at the Tamarisk Club with Hoffman, Helms...
ADMEN are cutting down on their smoking. Tide, advertising trade magazine, polled 2,200 U.S. advertising and marketing executives, found that of 1,466 who smoke, 35% have switched to filter-tip cigarettes within the last year, 28% have cut down on their smoking, and 23% have stopped smoking altogether...
...presidents went further. Hereafter, coaches will not be permitted to give advertising endorsements, e.g., Columbia's Lou Little may still smoke Lucky Strikes but not on magazine pages. As a final new measure, the Ivy presidents solemnly shut the eligibility door on any athlete whose precollege career was ever tainted by a subsidy: "No student entering after Sept. 1, 1953 shall be eligible whose secondary-school education was subsidized or whose post-college education is promised by an institution or group of individuals not closely related to the family...
Carved into the memory of every combat pilot are moments of total recall-the unforgettable glimpses of a foeman starting to smoke, the inescapable sounds of the typewriter-tapping of tracer on fuselage and rudder. Captain Heinz Knoke, winner of Nazi Germany's coveted Rit-terkreuz and the youngest squadron commander in the Luftwaffe, pinpoints his most vivid memory high above Helgoland, one July day in 1943. In I Flew for the Führer, Knoke tells how his Messerschmitt squadron loaded up with 500-lb. fragmentation bombs and climbed high above a formation of U.S. Flying Fortresses...
...brink of starvation. In Düsseldorf, Munich and other cities, where only a few years ago the ragged populace scrabbled through the rubble in desperate search for a single potato, rebuilt hotels teem with prosperous travelers, and the air is filled with shop talk and cigar smoke. In the Ruhr, bomb-shattered steel mills glow once more through the long winter nights. Germans who were once glad to sell their prized possessions for a few packs of cigarettes now have one of Europe's strongest currencies in their pockets. Shops are loaded with consumer goods and crowded with...