Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mill town of Nelson have twice chosen little (5 ft.) Dickie Bland to be their mayor. "Nelson doesn't like Dickie's principles," said one townsman, "but it does like Dickie." Beyond ordaining vegetarian menus at official luncheons and showing his disgust at puffed clouds of tobacco smoke, Dickie has returned the town's trust by keeping his convictions to himself as far as possible. However, he promised, "if anything comes along .during my term as mayor that makes me feel I couldn't mix my office with my principles, I will resign...
...Hoodlums. Riot was just a breath away when someone touched off a tear-gas bomb. Blinded, and choking on the thick smoke, spectators groped their way out of the Forum. Outside, the mob grew. Some 8,000 strong, it flowed down St. Catherine Street, blocked traffic and cheered when a truckload of kids shouted "Vive le Rocket!" Soon the hoodlums took over. Rocks arched through the yellow haze of street lights and store windows shattered. Jewelry shops were looted. Streetcars took a pasting. It was 2:30 a.m. before the Montreal cops had the city back under control...
Phones & Time Clocks. Tall and rangy (6 ft. 3 in., 190 Ibs.), prematurely grey at 41, Tom Watson Jr. is much like his father at IBM. He does not smoke, except for a few weeks at Christmastime, never drinks. He used to do both, but when he took over the president's chair, he gave them up in deference to his father. He usually wears the traditional IBM uniform -dark suit, quiet tie, white shirt with stiff, detachable paper collar-punches a time clock along with the lowliest employee. But he is a more relaxed executive than his father...
...building than did the chemistry teacher who preceded them. In the 1830's Dr. John Webster, hiding behind a door while he stretched a pole with a candle at its end toward a kettle, would ignite "a volcano in an iron pot." In 1837 the pot exploded, smoke billowed forth, and his students threw themselves out of the windows...
...more than Ford dealers, according to the Polk computations. Only after subtracting the dealer registrations, said Ford Vice President R. S. McNamara, could one arrive at "actual sales to customers." These showed Ford clearly the legitimate winner by 25,257 car registrations, or 2%. Snapped a Chevrolet official: "Smoke screen. We're still the leaders, and we defy anyone to tell us differently...