Word: stowaway
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...international precautions or safeguards against proliferation of weapons-grade material, and 2) processing security, whether it is reactors, reprocessing, fast-breeders or the stowaway business for the remnants...
University of Notre Dame William F. Buckley, LL.D., author, editor. A stowaway foretopman on the ship of state; a franc-tireur for the West and Christendom; a Burke, a Roland, a Quixote, with a whiff of Falstaff and a swing of the snickersnee...
Died. Carlo ("Don Carlo") Gambino, 74, chief of New York City's most powerful Mafia family; in his sleep; in Massapequa, N.Y. The Sicilian-born Gambino came to the U.S. as a stowaway at the age of 19. He assumed control of his underworld clan in 1957 after the assassination of its boss, Albert Anastasia, in the barbershop of the Park-Sheraton Hotel. Although the Federal Government tried to deport Gambino for ten years, a series of heart attacks enabled him to successfully thwart expulsion to Italy...
...Stowaway Vans. No one knows for certain, but current estimates are that 50 to 100 men arrive every day. It is no easy trip. Often the mojados cross the border on their own and meet up with a smuggler on the other side. Then, for fees as high as $400 each, they are driven the 1,400 miles to Chicago. They hide out on the illegal journey in the smugglers' cars, trucks and vans, sometimes stowing away in cardboard boxes or disappearing behind loads of watermelons and sacks of potatoes. One smuggler tucked his stowaways in his trunk...
...mission, apparently of starvation; Anita stubbornly refused to eat the morsels of filet mignon that were offered. Other casualties were the two minnows that had been carried aboard Skylab. However, their offspring - the first earth creatures to be born in space (except, perhaps, for some offspring of stowaway bacteria on earlier nights) - made it safely to earth, only to die a day later...