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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Most U.S. clergymen jump at an invitation to deliver the invocation or benediction at a major party's state political convention. But last week, in search of a Roman Catholic priest to share religious honors at the Republican convention late this month, Maine's Republican leaders tried seven priests, got seven turndowns. Both church and state knew why: at the legislature's special session in January, the G.O.P. majority in both houses defeated a drive by the Democratic minority to change the state school law, allow local communities the option of providing public-school bus service...
...among Protestants, who make up 74.9% of Maine's population. Key Democrats decided that they must water down their school-bus proposal before their state convention opens April 22-featuring an invocation by a rabbi, prayer by a priest, benediction by a Congregational minister-or reap their share of trouble from the hottest religious division in state politics since the vote-strong Ku Klux Klan rode around heckling Maine Catholics...
...promised protection from tar and nicotine, tobaccomen turned the whole market topsy-turvy. In 1952 five brands, led by Reynolds Tobacco's Camel (and followed by American Tobacco's Lucky Strike, Liggett & Myers' Chesterfield, American's Pall Mall, and Philip Morris), held 82% of the cigarette market; today that share is held by ten brands, many of them born since then. Filters have swelled from i% of the market in 1952 to 50% today, and menthol cigarettes have gone from 3% to 10%. Nor is the race to novelty over. This week Brown & Williamson began test-marketing a new filtered...
...counts on the unchangeability of human nature. Based on the population growth and increased smoking by women, the industry expects cigarette production to rise 18% by 1965 to 570 billion cigarettes v. this year's 485 billion. If many smokers feel guilty about their bondage, they are apt to share Mark Twain's melancholy experience: "Smoking is easy to give up; I've done it hundreds of times." They are also liable to feel pretty bad-tempered. Another author became so testy when he gave up smoking that his wife finally stuck a lighted cigarette in his mouth and shouted...
...headed slyly for the medicine cabinet to reacquaint himself. "Miss Betty Hyams, twice a day after meals,'' said the label on one bottle. "I was saved. Betty." The plot, however, is mostly concerned with another girl-healthy enough not to require a medicine cabinet-who comes to share Julian's rustic idyl for a while. When he finds her clasped by a lustful vegetarian, he takes to his bed for several days in disgust, but wakes up to find wild flowers thrusting up through the bleak earth of his gloom; there is money in the mail from...