Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...struggles down the slope. Suddenly, from high above, comes a familiar, chilling whine. "Incoming!" someone yells, and the leatherneck flattens himself in the mud. The artillery shell bursts 50 yards from him, gouging out a small crater through the slime. A breeze wafts away the cloud of smoke and detritus, the rifleman listens for a moment and then stands up. "Man!" he exclaims, scraping mud from his caked body. "This just must be the worst place in the world...
...make as many persons happy as I can," he says. He's that kind of guy. Arrow-straight, true-blue, sincere as all get out. He asks his guests to show snapshots of their kids, and the ladies at home beam. He adds: "I don't smoke, I don't drink, I get home every night. I'm a square." The view from across the board is something approaching mystical adoration...
...anyone who has ever walked a mile for a Camel (or any other smoke) knows, it often pays to keep going another block or two. In Atlanta, cigarette prices range from 28? a pack at cut-rate auto-service stations to 50? at downtown nightspots. Beverly Hills, Calif., smokers have been paying prices ranging from 32? to 45? in one four-block area. Chicagoans fork over anywhere from 35? to 50? for the same sort of butts. "It's all on the basis of what the traffic will bear," explains Los Angeles Tobacco Distributor Norbert Orens. "Cigarette prices...
When Israel's body drifted as smoke...
...Smoke-Ins were sponsored by a mysterious group called the Committee For Sensible Marijuana Legislation. One member called it "just a bunch of people who got together and wanted to pull something off like this." They handed out leaflets in the Square two weeks ago advertising the session: "Free Grass. We Want Pot." It may have started as a civil disobedience in protest against the marijuana. But as more and more people arrived, a festive mood developed. Everyone was having great fun. There was no defiance since there was no one to be defiant toward. It became a kind...