Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tall, broad-shouldered, his language and his clothes tailored with equally elegant understatement. But Bohlen, who was reared in Aiken, S.C., and Ipswich, Mass., as the son of a modestly wealthy family, was also an engagingly informal man who propped his feet on his desk, spilled pipe tobacco on carpets, and organized late-night poker parties...
...tell exactly when) in Garden City, N.Y., of Greek immigrant parents, Savalas knows from experience those mean streets he now uses for locations (some of the show is also shot in Los Angeles). He graduated from a noisy family whose fortunes fluctuated from wealth in the tobacco business to bankruptcy in the Depression and back to affluence in the bakery business. He earned a degree from Columbia University in psychology, an experience that permanently turned him off the subject...
...Scottish descent and he laughs loud and deep at things that are only vaguely funny. He smokes a pipe all day long; if you catch him at any time after eleven o'clock in the morning you will find that he stinks from the odor of tobacco...
...President could hardly have found a successor with greater contrast to the elegant Richardson. A hefty, rumpled man who chaws tobacco and plays the washtub fiddle for relaxation, Saxbe grew up on a farm near Mechanicsberg in southwestern Ohio, where he still maintains a home and a herd of prize heifers. He served as a bomber pilot in World War II and ran successfully for the state legislature in 1947, while he was a law student at Ohio State University...
...Cairenes seem affected mostly by what the war has done to their observance of Ramadan-the holy month of Islam during which devout Moslems abstain totally from food, drink and tobacco from sunrise to sunset. From Cairo, TIME Correspondent Wilton Wynn reports that "normally, Ramadan nights are more lively than the days. The Cairene's habit is to have an enormous 'lunch' at about 2 a.m. and go out on the town celebrating. But now, because of the war, restaurants shut at 11 p.m., as do most cabarets...