Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mourners offer amputated fingers as funeral gifts. Favorite adornment includes bird-of-paradise feathers, skulls on strings, and gourds to cover the genitals. The Papuans are also skilled craftsmen in wood and industrious raisers of pigs, sweet potatoes, tobacco, sugar cane, ginger and bananas...
Thursday, August 14 NET PLAYHOUSE (NET, 8-9:30 p.m.).* "The National Theater of the Deaf, Encore" presents talented actors who perform entirely in sign language a Kabuki drama and Anton Chekhov's monologue "On the Harmfulness of Tobacco...
...unexpected about-face, the tobacco industry last week moved toward a nearly unconditional surrender in the heated battle over cigarette advertising. Speaking for the nine U.S. cigarette manufacturers, Philip Morris Chairman Joseph Cullman III told the Senate Consumer Subcommittee that the industry was prepared to end all advertising on TV and radio on Dec. 31, if the broadcasters would go along, and in any case by September 1970, when current contracts expire...
...order all cigarette commercials off the air waves. Both the FCC and the Federal Trade Commission promised to drop their proposals for stern regulatory action if the industry could make its plan work. Utah Democrat Frank Moss, the nonsmoking Mormon who heads the consumer subcommittee and is the leading tobacco opponent in the Senate, said happily that "the dike has been broken...
...straddle motorcycles instead of horses, and they smoke marijuana instead of tobacco. But the central characters in Easy Rider are as remote as the freedom they are seeking. Wyatt (Peter Fonda) is a vague, unshaven pothead who likes to refer to himself as "Captain America." His manic sidekick Billy (Dennis Hopper) has a droopy Stephen Crane mustache and shiny eyes fixed on some wild interior vision. Flush from the profits of dope selling, the cyclists symbolically cast off their wristwatches and head for that persistent American symbol of adventure, The Road...