Word: tobacconist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There are, as well, a French bakery, a bookstore, a flower shop, a chocolatier, an international newsstand-tobacconist, six other shops and nine eating places. These include a 24-hour English restaurant, whose waitresses seem to be on loan from Upstairs, Downstairs; a Hungarian rendezvous with an imported gypsy band; a Greek establishment with the salty flavor of Piraeus. Thus at Citicorp it is possible to leave work and, without stepping outside the Center, shop for a book or a new pipe, pick up a bag of custom-blended coffee, cash a check, raise a glass of wine and down...
...Englishman"? TIME has learned that he is Thomas Paine, 39, a blunt, quick, florid immigrant, lately editor of the successful Pennsylvania Magazine. Just two years ago he resided in England and called himself "Pain." And pain has been his lot. He is a failed tax official, a failed tobacconist, a failed husband, and a frequent failure at the humble trade to which he was apprenticed?that of corsetmaker. His second wife paid him £ 35 as part of the agreement by which he left her house (she is reported to have said that they never consummated the marriage...
Increasingly ubiquitous, they are even freer spending than the Americans were in their heyday. At Dunhill, the sedate tobacconist in London, three winsome Japanese girls wait on the busloads of their countrymen who visit every day and walk away with the costliest pipes. (Americans usually buy the cheapest.) At the Pathek-Philippe factory in Geneva, Japanese queue up to buy watches for as much as $5,000 apiece...
...comes to Rome for an International Monetary Fund meeting. En route, Marzi stops at a tobacco shop. "I'm a gumdrop in here to get some coins for the Trevi fountain," he says. Instead of a few coins, his change is a chocolate bonbon. "Nougat lire," the tobacconist explains. "Plus ca change, plus c'est la creme chose," observes the professor...