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...owner in the pre-Civil War U.S. South. "Although they appear happy and contented," the report says, "they seem to be very servile." The Malay workers call Clunies-Ross "Tuan Besar," meaning "Big Master." For their labor, the Malays are paid six Cocos rupees a week (about $2) in plastic tokens redeemable only at Clunies-Ross's own store. Clunies-Ross, 43, is depicted as something of a bizarre character who strides around the island barefoot with a Scottish dagger in his belt...
Both the garage and the Holiday Inn are part of an avid rush by local landowners to cast a plastic gloss of commercial development over the Square. Already--a giant craft and specialty mall, nested on nearly half a block parallel with Holyoke Center, is half complete. Nearly 40 small businesses have been expelled by soaring rents and the commercial muscle of concessions like McDonald's and Baskin Robbins. Max Wasserman, the most innovative and prosperous of the Harvard Square landlords, has extensively remodeled more than a score of his properties. All developers expect the JFK center to energize...
...differs significantly, however, from similar procedures performed in clinics in New York and other states where abortion is legal. Vacuum aspiration, as usually done, requires dilation of the cervix under local anesthesia. Menstrual extraction requires little or no dilation in most cases. Instead, a thin (diameter: 4 mm.), flexible plastic tube, or cannula, is inserted through the cervix and into the uterus, and most of the uterine lining is then removed by means of suction or a specially designed syringe...
...drab attaché case inside: $200,000 in $50 and $100 bills. Then the General led one of the agents off on a meandering excursion that ended up in a Chinatown sportswear shop. There it was the agent's turn to inspect the wares: a cardboard box packed with 14 plastic bags containing 20 Ibs. of pure No. 4 white heroin from Southeast Asia. Street value: $10 million...
...distinctly relieved as the plane settled down at Paris' Orly Airport and a large Citroën drove up on the tarmac, followed by another car full of police. Each of the men carried off the plane a brand new and obviously heavy black suitcase with a discreet plastic tag bearing the name and symbol of Delta Airlines. Inside the suitcases was a cool $1,000,000 in $50 and $100 bills paid out by Delta on July 31 to three men and two women who skyjacked the airline's Flight 841 and flew to Algiers to join...