Word: tobacco
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Born. To Angler Biddle Duke, 46, impeccable State Department Chief of Protocol, heir to an American Tobacco Co. fortune, who lost his third wife in a plane crash last year, and blonde, bubbly Robin Chandler Duke, 39, onetime boss of Pepsi-Cola's public relations department: a son; in Washington...
...force. Since the free-enterprising government of Premier Constantine Karamanlis took office in 1954, it has stabilized the drachma and set Greece on the course toward industrialization. The economy is still lopsidedly agrarian. More than half of the 8,400,000 Greeks scratch out a living on uneconomic fruit, tobacco and cotton farms; 8% of the non-farm labor force is jobless, and 25% of those on the land are "underemployed...
...Even the Poles have been wallowing in God's Little Acre and Tobacco Road" said Novelist Erskine Caldwell, 58, on his way to tour Warsaw and collect some 100,000 zlotys (about $4,200) in royalties, which he must spend in Poland. While his books on the seamy side of Southern life have sold 62 million copies (mostly in paperbacks) around the world, and are bestsellers in Communist countries, Caldwell mused sadly on the low state of his reputation at home. "I'm not read very much in the South," he said, "because they are very touchy about...
Surgeon General Luther L. Terry of the Public Health Service, committee chairman, chose the ten scientists from a list of about 150 names submitted by Federal agencies, voluntary health organizations, and the tobacco industry. Immediately eliminated were anyone who had previously expressed an opinion on the problem in public, and anyone from Southern states in which tobacco is a principal cash crop...
According to the New York Times Dr. Terry called his committee "a composition of specialists covering the broad range of medical sciences involved in evaluating the complex relationship between tobacco smoking and health...