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...want it, you start going to Vilem B. Haan, an accessory shop that is like a pet shop for cars. There you buy a brassiere for your car, padded plastic cups that fit over the car's nose to ward off bugs and tar. "We sell them by the ton," says a salesman. And beer mugs and beach towels with an insigne of your auto's make on them, air horns that play your favorite tune, wood and leather steering wheels, driving gloves, headers, roll bars. Jack Cassidy recently picked up an air horn for his Rolls, Bill...
...been more than a year since the suntanned Marlboro heman, the Silva Thins cad, the perky Virginia Slims Ms., the romping Salem couple and all the rest of the cigarette-selling gang have appeared on U.S. television. Yet the hopes of health authorities that a tar-free screen might help cut down on cigarette consumption have gone up in, well, a puff of smoke. Per capita use of cigarettes in 1971, at 132.4 packs, stayed just about on a par with that of other recent years, and total cigarette sales increased by a solid...
...Tar Heels forwards Dennis Wysick and Bill Chamberiain, poss particular threats to the Crimson team, Smith said...
...ever been written to a flat-topped building in the sunset." But in a recent issue of the AIA Journal, Landscape Architect Lynn M.F. Harriss points out that these rooftops comprise hundreds of acres of usable open space in the cities' most congested areas. Now a wasteland of tar studded with water tanks and elevator hoists, they could be made into green public parks...
Last week, three days before the wedding was to take place, Marta underwent another, even more trying proof. Three masked women seized her at her home, sheared off her dark brown hair, tied her to a lamppost and poured tar over her head. For half an hour, until she was released, Marta slumped against the post while a band of 80 women shouted, "Soldier lover! Soldier lover!" A photographer, alerted in advance by local I.R.A. members, recorded the barbarous scene for the front pages of the world. Two other Catholic girls in Derry suffered similar treatment last week...