Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...luxury goods. There is a shortage of both new and used cars; the Ford assembly plant in Salisbury has had to curtail production because of a shortage of parts, and the nearby Rover plant has started turning out Japanese Isuzu trucks to replace the British lorries it once assembled. Tobacco, once Rhodesia's principal source of foreign exchange, is now piling up in secret government warehouses-three of which are disguised as hangars on an unused Salisbury airfield. The government recently initiated a "Guard Against Gossip" campaign (nicknamed "GAG") warning Rhodesians not to discuss economic troubles with foreigners...
Latter-Day Saints can now question some of the church's peculiar disciplines without being stigmatized by their neighbors. Although the U.S. Surgeon General's report on smoking confirmed the Mormon conviction that tobacco is an evil, there is widespread feeling that the church should relax its ban on cof fee and tea. "A lot of good Mormons drink coffee now," says one Utah saint. "The church should not make its prohibition a commandment." Still another quaint tradition is the Mormons' use of "temple garments"-a torso-covering form of underclothing signifying their covenant with the Lord...
...specializes in infield hits, Bill Mazeroski and Gene Alley are the best doubleplay combination in baseball history, and catcher Jim Pagliaroni once played for the Red Sox. The Corsairs don't have a stopper or a dependable reliever, but their staff is competent and lovable: Woody Fryman is a tobacco farmer, Bob Veale is suing Sport Magazine for a million dollars, "Deacon" Law could be mayor of Pittsburgh or Meridian, Idaho, with no contest, Dennis Ribant is a Met who might make good, Elroy Face ... To understand why baseball will always be the national pastime, tune in the Pirates some...
...three minutes. . .aah. . .I mean twelve minutes after three. . . wheee." At Chicago's WBBM-TV, Salesman Frank Palmer all but burned up the airways. Winding up the 5 p.m. news, he lit his pipe just like a real Walter Cronkite, burned his fingers, dumped tobacco all over the desk, grinned wanly and shrugged. In Los Angeles, KNBC viewers telephoned the station to complain that Pinch Newscaster Harry Howe was chewing gum while reading the financial news. Not so, Howe later explained. Seems that while struggling with all those Dow-Jones figures, he dislodged a filling in his tooth...
Romney's public--and private--image of simple goodness is something he sincerely believes and upholds. He often prays and fasts before making important decisions--like whether to run for office. A devout Mormon, he abstains from alcohol, tobacco, and coffee. Although Romney frequently attacks America's "moral decline" while campaigning, he avoided this topic at Harvard except to comment, in typical evangelistic vagueness, "The principal deficiencies in this country in the future are going to develop in the field of personal responsibility, family responsibility, and private institutional responsibility...