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Dwight James Worker, 28, a San Francisco clothing manufacturer, tried to hide coke in a body cast and was nabbed when a sharp-eyed Mexican customs official noted that he had trouble remembering which leg had the limp. Charles Richard Helms, 25, selected in a lottery by some of his classmates at Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pa., to smuggle coke through Mexico, was caught with 2.6 kilos concealed under his bell-bottom trousers. Katherine Lou Simmons, 25, a Hollywood pianist, was arrested when officials discovered that her roundly curved belly was not a sign of pregnancy...
Unlucky Amateurs. Others unsuccessfully attempted to hide their hauls in the hollows of platform shoes, aerosol cans or bras. In June alone, Mexican police arrested 33 Americans for smuggling. Sentences are now running from 7 to 13½ years...
Sadistic Reputation. One senior British official recalls that after a terrorist killing, Sampson would frequently be "the first reporter on the scene. The reason, of course, was that he himself had committed the murders. He would hide behind a narrow turning in a Nicosia side street, wait for his victim to pass, and then blow the man's head off or shatter his back. He would toss his gun to a small boy, who would disappear into the bowels of the earth. Sampson would then run away and reappear several minutes later clutching his reporter's notebook." Although...
...while only the U.S. and the Soviet Union had much interest in the deep seabeds, and only because the ocean floor was an ideal place to hide the electronic paraphernalia of war-special devices, for example, to track each other's submarines. But the 1960s brought a greater awareness of the widening differences between the have and have-not nations and, consequently, a new concern about resources. In 1967 Arvid Pardo, then Malta's Ambassador to the U.N., noted in a rousing speech in the General Assembly that the deep seabeds were littered with minerals, notably commercially valuable...
...impatient public almost forces its leaders to utter. On the personal side, followers must also be more willing to accept their leaders as they are and less ready to buy the tiresome public relations conventions that require the American politician to be always one of the boys and hide every trait that might cause alarm?from intellectuality to a bad temper?behind a smiling mask...