Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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We are kept busy, which is part of the plan. "This is a four-pronged program," says Dr. George D. Goldman, a psychoanalyst from Garden City, N.Y. "We have a controlled environment, without cigarettes, which cuts down the social-habit motivation. The groups help reinforce the nonsmoking motivation. The breathing...
At a press conference, I learn that although we have 204 passengers aboard, only 99 are smokers who are participating in the program, and of these, only about 65 to 75 have completely stopped smoking. The nonparticipants include freeloading employees of the sponsors, the professional staff and Comedienne Phyllis Diller...
First indoctrination completed, we dock at Curaçao for a run ashore. Suddenly everyone we see seems to be smoking, and we plunge into the shops-or the clear sea-to escape. The weakest-willed flee back to the ship. This is to be the pattern for the next...
As we head north toward Florida and New York again, Goldman seems optimistic. "Right now," he says, "I figure that about two-thirds of the smokers are off tobacco." The real test will come once the voyage has ended. Says Goldman: "It would be wonderful if 30 to 40 percent...
A WEEK before he left Rome on his eight-country tour of Asia, Australia and Oceania, Pope Paul VI told a general audience that the theme of his trip was "the discovery of the church." Paul explained that the church is "so deep, complex and involved with the destinies of...