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...hold either the vessel or its skipper. An initial search revealed nothing. Then, a full day later, the agents suddenly noted that the ship's concrete ballast seemed to be oddly positioned. They attacked the concrete with pickaxes. In the center they discovered a cache that contained 40 plastic bags of pure heroin-presumably processed in the South of France and destined for the U.S. French officials announced that the narcotics haul was the largest in history: 937 Ibs. of pure heroin worth between $180 million and $400 million on the streets of New York City, depending...
...ONCE OR TWICE a month I turned up at his showings, arriving early to help spread pate on the bread and pour nuts and raisins into the plastic sieve that served him as a snack bowl. On days when I came alone we usually had a proper meal: I think one of the crucial points in our relationship must have been when he served rooster soup. "It's cheaper than chicken," he explained, "and just as good...
...counter is the most disappointing part of the store. There are only simple plastic toys and wooden guns with bayonets for 65?. A four-engine jetliner, which looks very much like a Pan Am 707 and has an insigne on the box similar to the Pan Am seal, costs...
...nose by any other name would smell as sweet, but the chic nose of the moment in Europe is that of Princess Anne, according to Viennese Plastic Surgeon Hans Bruck. At a conference of plastic surgeons in Miami, the veteran of some 5,000 rhinoplasties (nose jobs) said that prospective patients used to come in clutching photos of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, but now "they want the nose of the House of Windsor, like Princess Anne." Anne's aristocratically elongated proboscis will probably not penetrate the U.S., says
...idea into a product, he says, designers could insist on manufacturing processes that do not damage the environment. Instead, he charges, their primary aim is to increase sales through wasteful changes in style. They also clutter the market with basically useless products -electrically heated footstools, ballpoint pens crowned with plastic orchids, even a $9.95 inflatable "playgirl" made of "fieshlike vinyl...