Word: stowaway
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...Stowaway Vans. No one knows for certain, but current estimates are that 50 to 100 men arrive every day. It is no easy trip. Often the mojados cross the border on their own and meet up with a smuggler on the other side. Then, for fees as high as $400 each, they are driven the 1,400 miles to Chicago. They hide out on the illegal journey in the smugglers' cars, trucks and vans, sometimes stowing away in cardboard boxes or disappearing behind loads of watermelons and sacks of potatoes. One smuggler tucked his stowaways in his trunk...
...mission, apparently of starvation; Anita stubbornly refused to eat the morsels of filet mignon that were offered. Other casualties were the two minnows that had been carried aboard Skylab. However, their offspring - the first earth creatures to be born in space (except, perhaps, for some offspring of stowaway bacteria on earlier nights) - made it safely to earth, only to die a day later...
...would be a long-awaited accession for Gambino, a softspoken, courtly man who came to the U.S. in 1921 as a stowaway from Palermo, Sicily. In a brotherhood where "respect" is achieved by assassination, there is a strong caste system. For years the Gambinos were disdained by the other Mafia families. Gangsters called them "the degenerates" because Carlo married his first cousin and his brother Paul married another cousin. There were a number of stories that neither Carlo nor Paul had ever killed anyone-which is ample reason for them to be held in contempt-and both were suspected...
There is a stowaway on Noah's ark: Jonah. Two By Two is a jinxed musical arch, vulgar, lumbering, stale. It may conceivably make scores of theater- party ticket purchasers curse their favorite charities for months to come. There is, of course, Danny Kaye as Noah, and he does everything short of scat singing a git-begat-gittle number...
Died. Albert Lamorisse, 48, French film maker (The Red Balloon, Stowaway in the Sky) whose aerial cinematics in high-spirited childhood fables enraptured international audiences in the '50s and '60s; when an Iranian army helicopter from which he was shooting a documentary hit a power line and crashed near Teheran...