Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...about 3:15 p.m., the fire alarm roused the girls and sent them scampering onto the Quad. Inside the dormitory, Cambridge firemen hunted down the conflagation--which sent a slight stream of smoke from the living floor ceiling--and put it out rapidly...
Furious, Gen Blatt accused the party's bosses of meeting in a "smoke-filled hotel room" to ditch her, refused to bow out. To complicate matters, Roberts, 66, who holds the post of Allegheny County (Pittsburgh) Prothonotary,*also jumped into the race. A baggy-pants type who never got past grade school, Roberts scoffed at his opponents' education (Musmanno claims seven college degrees, Blatt three), spoke scornfully if confusedly of "high-kaflutin' " politicians...
With muscled men, gorgeous girls and green valleys, the U.S. tobacco industry has long pictured the cigarette as the companion of sex and virility, of glamour and wellbeing. From now on, the industry will have to call a smoke a smoke-and pretty much let it go at that...
...wholesale switch of cigarette smokers has jumped the cigar-smoking populace to 18 million. Among them are an estimated 100,000 women, including such well-pouted puffers as Greta Garbo and Edie Adams, who advertises Consolidated's Muriels. The heaviest pitch to women has been made by second-ranked General Cigar ("Should a gentleman offer a Tiparillo to a lady?"), but Consolidated has also acknowledged the market. It's "Have you noticed how many men are smoking cigars?" ads have been discreetly rephrased to "Have you noticed how many people are smoking cigars?" The cigar companies doubt that...
...More Hands. The young men lured by soft-as-smoke ads ("With a cigar you will look smart") will be looking, surveys show, for roughly the same five-cent cigar that Thomas Marshall wanted. To provide it, and at the same time keep their earnings up, cigar makers are trying to eliminate costly hand operations. American Machine & Foundry has perfected machinery to roll any type of cigar, uses reconstituted wrappers in which tobacco leaves have been destemmed and ground. If it can produce popular, machine-made cigars, the industry will indeed have a glowing future...