Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...such delinquencies as being late to family prayers. From his Baptist mother. Laura Spelman Rockefeller, he absorbed a sense of piety and duty. Dancing, the theater, cardplay-ing and other frivolities were frowned on; at ten, young Rockefeller made a vow. which he never broke, to abstain from "tobacco, profanity and the drinking of any intoxicating beverages...
...twin-engine Piper Apache piloted by a U.S. adventurer whom U.S. authorities had been trying to get the goods on since last year. The pilot was Matthew Edward Duke, 45, ex-Navy flyer and ex-husband of Melody Thomson, 35, blonde heiress to a $3,000,000 tobacco fortune. In 1947, Duke hit the skids, got picked up on bad-check charges, then turned to the dangerous game of flying anti-Castro Cubans to U.S. exile...
Chemical Mutation. Tsugita and Fra«n-kel-Conrat worked with TMU, a virus that causes mosaic disease in tobacco plants. TMU's structure is extremely simple. All it has is a core of coiled-up RNA surrounded by a cylindrical jacket made of protein molecules. Tsugita and Fraenkel-Conrat first stripped off the jacket by use of a protein-dissolving chemical. Then they treated the naked RNA with nitrous acid, which is known to affect the RNA's code-carrying bases. After the nitrous acid had. acted, the RNA was enabled to clothe itself...
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...
Congratulations for your delightful cover story of tobacco [April 11]. I have never smoked in my life, though I have always liked him to "blow some my way" and, being of the full age of majority, pressed down and running over toward 90, I well remember the hideous fear with which many oldsters watched the younger generation (of which I was one back in the last century) eating tomatoes. (They were known as love apples and considered poisonous.) So, how about this song of an old tomato...