Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Since bettered by Life with Father (3,224 performances), Tobacco Road (3,182) and My Fair Lady...
...trade between the two countries has not been resumed. Denied access to Pakistani suppliers, Calcutta's jute mills have been forced to reduce output 25% , while some Dacca cigarette factories have closed down completely because no tobacco is being imported from West Bengal. Travel between the two countries is almost nonexistent, postal and telegraph communications operate far below standard, and rail, road and river traffic is severely curtailed in both nations. India and Pakistan may not be actively at war, but they are not at peace either...
...Since 1925. A tobacco-chewing ex-Army officer and supernumerary ballplayer who hung around the big leagues for eight years (although he got into only 91 games), Houk was known as the "Miracle Major" when he bossed the New York Yankees to three straight American League pennants before retiring to the front office in 1964. Another miracle was obviously called for after the Yankees slumped to sixth place last year, got off to a miserable start in 1966. So last May, when Manager Johnny Keane was fired, Houk took over the job again himself...
...cigarette filters cut down on the tar and nicotine that have helped to earn tobacco its unpleasant reputation as a cause of lung cancer, heart disease and assorted other ills? Certainly both tobacco companies and smokers seem to think so. In 1952, only 2% of cigarettes manufactured in the U.S. were filtered; last year, when more cigarettes were sold than ever before, 64.7% had tips purportedly capable of straining out dangerous substances...
...findings were stark confirmation of studies made nine years ago (TIME, July 29, 1957), which showed that some cigarette manufacturers, anxious to get a satisfactory flavor past their filters and to their customers, had switched to stronger tobacco...