Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lawrence appeared on the municipal scene just when Financier Richard K. Mellon (Mellon National Bank, Gulf Oil, Alcoa) and a platoon of lesser tycoons were preparing to rip their dowdy old city apart and rebuild it. Lawrence proved to be a valuable political ally. He ordered strict enforcement of smoke-control ordinances, pressured Democrats at Harrisburg and Washington to pass laws and approve appropriations that helped build new roads, bridges and dams. His reward: the business community's gratitude. Four years ago Lawrence's Republican opponent was not even invited to participate in the face-saving...
Crowding into Milan's seedy, smoke-filled Halcyon Theater, 547 Social Democratic bigwigs shouted and orated in impressive abstract discussions of Marxist theory, but were unable even to agree on a platform for Italy's general elections, now only six months off. After years of unchallenged dominance of the party, moody, long-faced Giuseppe Saragat, 59, twice Vice Premier of Italy, was seriously threatened by 36-year-old Matteo Matteotti, whose only program was unification after the elections. Matteotti did not explain how Social Democrats could win votes by, in effect, promising to become Nenni Socialists right after...
When a minister explains the meaning of atonement. Life has its sinner respond: "You mean that Christ took the rap for me?" Explains Dr. Gockel: "You have to meet the pagan where he is." Dr. Gockel allows none of his characters except the fallen to smoke, drink, or dance too close. (His definition of too close: "without space showing between the two bodies.") "But we never preach," he says. "We simply let the value of the Christian message demonstrate itself...
...experts that his masterpieces are in danger from the salt air. Niarchos brushes off this complaint: "On my yacht, sea air and water never reach the paintings. The rooms are air-conditioned, with temperature and humidity controls. Filters control the inflow of air, which is always pure, and smoke from cigarettes is immediately expelled by adequate installations...
...Steam is one of the best examples published to date of this squirrel-like activity of the past decade. Snorting steam engines parade through its pages in glorious profusion under bushy black columns of smoke. The photography is top grade, as no railfan would be caught dead without a good camera (and a surprising number know how to use them). And the Dutch printing and engraving is superb...