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...heroin. It is then sent to New York by clandestine carriers as diverse as diplomatic pouches and the Air France stewardess caught three years ago with the stuff in her bra. Balding little Louis Lavalette, chief of the police judiciare for Southern France, has long had a good hunch who was behind the operation: "Monsieur Jean" Cesari, a quick-witted courtly Corsican who, in 20 years of flitting through the Marseille milieu with few visible sources of income, has nonetheless managed to acquire both a 1,000-acre Riviera estate and a handsome $50,000 villa near Aubagne guarded...
...presidential oath on her Bible and as Grandson Ted beat out George Lodge to become U.S. Senator (thereby avenging Honey Fitz's 1916 defeat by George's great-grandfather), but was never permitted to see or hear anything about the assassination-though the family "had a hunch she knew"; in Boston...
...letter, then by a telephone followup. Thus far, the tests have turned up a 4.5% incidence of diabetes among Clevelanders, and Kent and Leonards suspect that the old estimate of approximately 1% for the entire U.S. is far too low. They hope to get a chance to check their hunch next year when the DAC test, with its corn-syrup cocktail, is expected to get a nationwide tryout...
...prompted either by hunch or foresight, the Ridder newspaper group snapped up San Jose's dailies for what proved to be a bargain $3.5 million. From humble origins, this chain has steadily lengthened over the years until it now spans the continent. It was founded in 1895 by Herman Ridder, who had bought the German-language New Yorker Staats-Zeitung...
...Planning, said last night he had "expected the number of shifts to be slightly less." But, he had anticipated "as part of the single room rent policy that there would be moving about at first. My own feeling is that it should slow down--but that's just a hunch...