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...room home at Saint-Jean-leBlanc and arrested him in connection with smuggling 209 Ibs. of pure heroin into the U.S. The narcotics, worth $2,800,000 wholesale and as much as $100 million retail (after cutting and diluting), had been found in a shack at a Columbus, Ga., trailer court. It was the biggest single haul of heroin ever captured...
There, both were arrested last week, along with two Frenchwomen and a Brazilian national who were also charged with complicity. Meanwhile, agents had swooped down on Conder's trailer home in Columbus, arrested him and recovered the hot heroin. In Miami Beach, agents picked up Dio, who a few days earlier had flown to New York and lunched with Le Franc. As for Chevalier Desist, he was lodged in the Orléans jail, and faced the prospect of extradition and a different kind of vie back home...
Orphaned as a baby, she was adopted by a Micmac Indian couple-a mechanic and his proofreader wife-and raised in Wakefield, Mass. Her summers were spent in a trailer on the shores of Sebago Lake, Me. It was there as a teenager, wandering alone through the forest, that she began to compose. She taught herself to play the guitar "all backwards," inventing her own finger patterns and "32 different tunings, which account for the strange flavor of my music." With the aid of a Government loan, she entered the University of Massachusetts, studied Oriental philosophy and elementary education...
...Harm from Piggybacking. With 37% of the truck market, Chevrolet easily leads other truckmakers in sales, is followed by Ford and Harvester. The two hottest sellers are the Mutt and Jeff of the industry: the small delivery truck and the huge tractor-trailer. Chevrolet's 61 models have cornered 78% of the small-truck market, which has mushroomed until it now accounts for 76% of all truck sales. The light trucks have even inspired some leisure-time cousins: small, rugged vehicles that are designed for camping, recreation and family hauling. To satisfy this market, Chevrolet has introduced the Chevelle...
...civil rights law to his community. The local Ku Klux Klan disagreed. And to bolster its argument, its members threw bricks through Blumberg's car windows, spread tacks in his driveway, fired six shots into his transmitter, forced the station's transfer from rented quarters to a trailer. So convincingly did Klansmen threaten the lives of his wife and children that Blumberg moved them to St. Louis...