Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...engine, and the plane began jumping around as if it were fighting turbulence in the sky. I watched the terminal building crack open at the sides and sag to earth." Dozens of oil tanks on the city's outskirts burst into flame, sending up columns of choking black smoke 20,000 ft. high. The tanks burned for 96 hours, despite efforts by U.S. planes to smother the flames with foam bombs. A tidal wave hurled fishing boats far inland. A nearby island rose 9 ft. in a series of jolts, as if a giant were using a lever. Tunnels...
...fundamentalist Plymouth Brethren, the Exclusives have traditionally been a clannish sort, clustering in self-imposed ghettos in small English towns and Scottish fishing villages. They seldom marry outside the sect, and refer to each other as "saints"-the only true disciples of Christ. The Brethren do not smoke, dance, watch TV or wear makeup, but official doctrine says that "strong drink is to be regarded as a creation of God and saints should freely drink...
Mail Order Bride. This wistful little romantic comedy looks as though it would like to grow up and become a western. It has gunfights, cattle rustlers, painted women and a smoke-filled gambling hall, but all the roaring wickedness is dedicated wholeheartedly to the proposition that a feller (Keir Dullea) needs a girl (Lois Nettleton). Cupid's leathery old handmaiden is Buddy Ebsen, a family friend who holds the deed to a decrepit ranch left to Dullea by his late father, though Dullea can't claim it until he simmers down some. One morning Ebsen strides...
...trying to establish the degree of responsibility for a number of different factors. For instance, muscular metabolism, and the effects of vigorous exercise." Dr. William B. Kannel, assistant director of a ten-year-old study of more than 5,000 men and women in Framingham, Mass., says: "Cigarette smoking triggers a great amount of coronary disease. If we could abolish smoking, we could reduce the deaths from coronary disease in Framingham by 40%. The risk is related to how much you smoke, but not to how long you have smoked. Those who stop smoking have as good a chance...
Tobaccomen still must puff easily on their advertising. Pressured by the Federal Trade Commission, nine cigarette companies formed the Cigarette Advertising Code, Inc. Last week they named a smoke warden to administer the code: Lawyer Robert B. Meyner, 55, former (1954-62) Governor of New Jersey...