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...most and were something less than exclusive. Montreal associated itself with 168 official products; Moscow signed up 200. Ignoring everything Baron de Coubertin had said about dignity, the 1980 Winter Games in Lake Placid, N.Y., found 381 buyers for the Olympic label, including an official chewing tobacco. By contrast, the L.A.O.O.C. has held down the number of sponsors to 30, but the charge is a minimum $4 million for each (Lake Placid collected $9 million total), and in most cases that represents just a down payment...
...list of holdouts grew smaller and smaller. Cuba, with no ready cash, dispatched its team on a boat loaded with sugar and tobacco; at each port of call, the cargo would be auctioned off to help defray expenses. Even Germany managed to outwit its future Fuhrer and sent 125 of its best young athletes...
...Salvador. While both sides went through the motions of peacemaking in Bogotá, they still hoped to gain a decisive edge on the battlefield. Crawling through cornfields, tobacco patches and shoulder-high brush, squads of guerrillas staged a surprise early-morning raid against several army outposts near the hilltop town of Tenancingo, 17 miles northeast of San Salvador. After two hours of fighting, frightened townspeople, many of whom were hiding under their beds, heard approaching army helicopters. They were soon followed by spotter planes and three U.S.-supplied A-37B Dragonfly jets...
...works in the attic of a five-story apartment house at Haberlandstrasse, 5, a quiet thoroughfare near Berlin's zoölogical garden. A large iron door, which clangs as it shuts, keeps him in solitude and silence. The room smells of tobacco. He smokes a long-stem briar pipe, into which he tamps tobacco with his thumb. His working tools are paper and pencils on a good-sized table and his books (cheaply bound in paper for the most part) on shelves around the wall. Ornaments are a four-foot telescope and a large terrestrial globe. The grand...
...feels so quintessentially Japanese that Shinoda's opening remarks come as a surprise. She points out (through a translator) that she was not born in Japan at all but in Dairen, Manchuria. Her father had been posted there to manage a tobacco company under the aegis of the occupying Japanese forces, which seized the region from Russia in 1905. She says, "People born in foreign places are very free in their thinking, not restricted." But since her family went back to Japan in 1915, when she was two, she could hardly remember much about a liberated childhood? She answers...