U.S. Government report on smoking received with mixed emotions in Albany. Revenooers feel a sharp drop in cigarette smoking would put hole in Nelson Rockefeller’s already precariously balanced (pay-as-you-go) budget. Albany is expecting to pull in $27 million in current fiscal year from 5¢ a pack cigarette tax and had projected close to $150 million from tax in fiscal 65….Indication of Goldwater sentiment in Illinois (it’s big) shown by decision of Charles Percy to resign as director of Rockefeller-controlled Chase Manhattan Bank. Percy is running in Illinois GOP gubernatorial primary and doesn’t want to alienate Au-H-Oers….Look magazine’s “The Insider’s Newsletter” now refers to all antiGoldwater forces within the GOP as “Dewey Republicans.”
Twenty thousand East Germans of one category made it through the Wall in 1963: elderly people too sick or feeble to work….Questions being asked in the French Chamber about French citizens still in Algerian concentration camps. The latest furor arose when sailors from the freighter Hasiblal, seized by the Algerian Government in November, reported seeing numerous European women and children in Algerian prisons….Ben Bella’ s socialist revolutionary state offers quick relief for sufferers from toothache. With most dentists gone, dental work consists pretty much these days in tooth-yanking by unskilled labor.




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