Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Addressing 2,000 delegates from 100 countries who assembled in the tepee-Moscow's Palace of Congresses-for a Red-sponsored peace conference. Khrushchev recalled that Longfellow summoned "the tribes of men" with the plea: Bury your war-clubs and your weapons . . . Smoke the calumet together. "I do not smoke," added Big Chief Nikita, "but really, I would be happy to light the calumet together with the leaders of all powers...
...Tricks & Gambols." The provocation consisted mainly of reminding Khrushchev that his professed willingness to smoke the peace pipe was being received with increasing skepticism by even those who do not sit at Western powwows. As Khrushchev should have known, even Hiawatha discovered the need for controls over war clubs...
...half-moon and moved toward the canals that bordered the palm jungle. AD6 attack bombers circled the paddies and tried to flush the Viet Cong into the open with rockets and napalm jelly. Suddenly a spotter plane picked out a group of fleeing Viet Cong guerrillas and dropped a smoke grenade. Fire from rifles and automatic weapons killed five of the Viet Cong, but two dozen more escaped into the trees. During the ear-shattering, three-minute exchange of fire, a farmer at the edge of the trees placidly kept plowing his field...
...interfere with his career. He does not smoke, sips a single sherry or Campari before dinner, and occasionally twirls a brandy glass afterward. A bachelor, he lives modestly in a two-room apartment a few paces from Berkeley Square. One of his few indulgences is a sizable stereophonic record collection; though he is fond of art ("I'm afraid the abstracts don't appeal to me"), his most valuable pictures are a pair of landscapes in oil, signed W.S.C., that were a gift from the Old Gentleman who painted them. He occasionally takes a girl out to dinner...
Snuffing Out Smokers. Hammond & Co. were careful not to suggest that smoking is a basic cause of either high blood pressure or coronary artery disease. But along with other A.M.A. panelists, they agreed that smoking almost certainly makes such conditions worse, and they agreed that the danger of serious illness or death from such infectious lung diseases as influenza, pneumonia and tuberculosis is increased if the lungs have been damaged by smoke...