Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Returning Natives. While the gales of power politics howl over its head, Berlin goes about its business. By day, the streets are crowded with shoppers; the city's score of electrotechnical plants belch smoke against the Prussian-blue sky; workmen scramble over scaffolding of a $900,000 British-American cigarette factory, the newest plant in the city. With a labor force of nearly a million and only 36,000 unemployed (matching the alltime low of last September), West Berlin can boast that it is Germany's biggest industrial city...
...picture him as what he would like to see himself as: the African of tomorrow, lightskinned, well-dressed, usually in comfortable surroundings. Coca-Cola successfully uses testimonials from U.S. Negro athletes, Lux from U.S. Negro actresses. One ad firm sold cigarettes in villages with the slogan: "Men about town smoke Commandos." Another company raised sales of its safety razor blade with an illustration that would make any Westerner turn to the electric razor: a scene showing the razor cutting a lion in half, with blood dripping all over the poster. The bestselling bicycle is made by a company that distributes...
...Best Man. Tn the setting of a smoke-filled political convention, Playwright Gore Vidal shuffles his cardboard characters with topical dexterity, and much of the lively show's appeal lies in identifying the three biggest pieces of cardboard...
...least once, 54% were occasional users and 23% were "regulars." Some 53% had tried heroin, 24% took it occasionally and 16% used it regularly. Winick found that often there was "positive social pressure" on jazz players to use drugs, cited one band in which only one member did not smoke "pot"-and he was called an addict by the narcotics users because he took Miltown. Among the "benefits" the users feel they get from dope: 1) "contact high," a sort of group excitement; 2) release from personal problems; and 3) a physical boost on road trips when they pull into...
Your excellent article on tobacco stated that 36% of all women over 15 smoke. But apparently Cover Artist Artzybasheff was unaware of this, because not one of the burning cigarettes he drew had even the slightest trace of lipstick...