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...well as local lawmen. The good guys are clearly losing the battle. Last year Feds in the Southeast seized roughly 1.4 million lbs. of marijuana, with a street value of $420 million, and 533 lbs. of cocaine worth $133 million. But perhaps ten times that amount got through. A pound of marijuana costs $40 in Colombia and brings $500 in New York. Says Don Turnbaugh, chief of Customs patrol in Miami: "The situation is out of control. We're fighting at best a holding action. To think of stopping them is absurd...
Coffee drinkers, a minority among tea-drinking Russians, suffered most. The price of a pound soared from $2.62 to $13. Gasoline doubled, to $1.30 per gal., and 4 million private car owners will also pay 30% more to get those autos serviced. Gold-jewelry prices leaped 60%, though the cost of first-time wedding rings will be partly rebated to encourage marriages...
Using life insurance statistics showing that for every pound of excess weight there is a loss in life expectancy of one month, Cohen went on to estimate the consequences of drinking cans or bottles of ordinary soda pop (which contain about 100 calories, v. no calories for the diet soda). The results of all these comparative calculations were decidedly in favor of the saccharin-spiked drinks. Says Cohen: "If all other things were unchanged, the substitution of diet for nondiet drinks would increase life expectancy by 100 times more than the cancer risk reduced...
Thad McNulty placed fifth for the Crimson with a 4:10.4 finish in the mile, and Ed Ajootian pulled through on Saturday with another fifth-place showing with a 60-ft., 5 1/4-in. heave in the 35-pound weight throw...
...thing is the report was kept carefully under wraps before it was released," Robert V. Pound, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics, said yesterday. "The opposition had no chance to organize since we did not know what was going...