Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Clyde acknowledges that the change in lifestyle is his most difficult adjustment, and he still has not learned to chew tobacco. In the off-season he will attend Texas A. & M. and major in journalism and television sportscasting. He explains, "If I don't make it on this side...
Brown & Williamson Tobacco, a subsidiary of British-American Tobacco Co., has all but wrapped up a deal to pay $200 million for Manhattan-based Gimbel Brothers, one of the nation's oldest department store chains. Lloyds Bank of London plans to take over Los Angeles' First Western Bank & Trust Co. for $115 million. A battle has erupted between Norwegian Shipping Magnate Hilmar Reksten and Britain's P & O Steam Navigation Co. over Texas-based Zapata Corp., a shipping, oil and real estate conglomerate. In the midst of P & O's negotiations to buy Zapata...
...mpora's efforts to establish a Peronist social system for his country. As first steps toward a new populist economic policy, Cámpora called for pay raises of between 10% and 50% for laborers and lower taxes on such consumer items as sugar, wine and tobacco, and warned that bank deposits would be nationalized to ensure "correct" investment policies...
DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY. Director: George P. Shultz. Total employees: 117,462; 100-200 directly involved in intelligence. Oversees Bureau of Customs and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. Thus responsible for narcotics investigations. Department also includes Secret Service, which protects President and other top officials, maintains liaison with Interpol, the international criminal police organization...
Dirty Business. Caulfield, a former New York City police detective who joined Nixon's 1968 presidential campaign staff as chief of security, is now a $31,200-a-year Treasury Department official in charge of enforcing laws regulating firearms, alcohol and tobacco. He issued a press statement saying that McCord had tried "fully and fairly" to recall their conversations, but that he disagreed with the testimony in some unspecified respects. Still, he conceded, "it is true that I met with Mr. McCord on three occasions in January and conveyed to him certain messages from a high White House official...