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...unblended note in the proceed ings was struck by a Parisian toxicologist who tactlessly told the audience that "un deniably, the immoderate use of tobacco threatens the health." But although Presi dent Charles de Gaulle (once a two-pack-a-day man) long ago swore off smoking on doctors' advice, the toxicologist's speech, unlike the rest of the festivities, was not broadcast over France's govern ment-owned radio-TV network. For to bacco has been a government monopoly in France since 1811, when Napoleon noticed an ostentatiously bejeweled woman at a Tuileries ball and then...
...whispers in privacy each day before the shaving mirror and the dressing table. Not merely the black statistics of murder, suicide, alcoholism and divorce betray anxiety (or that special form of anxiety which is guilt), but almost any innocent, everyday act: the limp or overhearty handshake, the second pack of cigarettes or the third martini, the forgotten appointment, the stammer in midsentence, the wasted hour before the TV set, the spanked child, the new car unpaid...
...catcher (informal clothes, brown boots) is worn on drooly days or bye-days (extra hunting days not listed on the appointment card;, and for cubbing (training the young hounds to follow the scent and hunt with the pack...
After last week's triumphant New York debut, Joan Sutherland concentrated on smoothing out all-but-invisible flaws in her performance. "The moment one stops finding things to criticize," she says of herself, "one might as well pack up." Soprano Sutherland has plenty of packing to do-for a tour of the U.S. and Europe that will reach a climax for U.S. operagoers next fall, when she sings Lucia...
...Last week, for example, Armour began regional marketing of its Princess Dial, a complexion soap for women, to go with its deodorant Dial, the nation's leader in dollar volume. But Prince is not overlooking his meat marketing. Armour has begun to sell high-profit, boil-in-the-pack frozen meals, and soon will begin limited marketing of "freeze-dried" dehydrated meats that need no refrigeration. Though gourmets may disagree. Prince says that he has licked the taste problem that has been holding back freeze-dried foods : "Our beef stew tastes like it just came out of Mother...