Word: agee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Restrepo" is 22, about average age for that specialist known as a cocaine diver. He is darker skinned than most Colombians and a good swimmer, both characteristics common to people from the Buenaventura coastal area where he was born. His role is to retrieve a 4-lb. waterproof bag of cocaine dumped overboard from a Grancolombiana line freighter docked at the Atlantic Avenue wharf in Brooklyn. He works at night, wearing a black wetsuit, and he is very cautious. A similar diver, Carlos Riascos, had his throat slit and body dumped in the river as he clambered ashore with...
...striking good looks had always added to his James Bond panache, but last year he began to hear the winged chariot of middle age. He became depressed and nervous. His dark, curly hair started falling out, and he lost weight. He wanted to see a psychiatrist, but feared it would hurt his career. He was obsessed with producing a dramatic dope bust that involved trapping cocaine traffickers from South America and France in one place. To make his case, he relied heavily on a longtime DEA informant, a French Canadian who calls himself Claude Picault...
Affectionately known to employees as "Grandma," A & P, like many old ladies, has been showing her age. Supermarket chains generally have been battling slumping profit margins, changing food-buying habits and competition from smaller, more flexible independents and fast-food restaurants. The once unchallenged A & P was hurt because many of its center-city stores were uneconomically small and stuck in deteriorating neighborhoods, and it was late to open bigger, more modern markets in the more profitable suburbs...
...their daughters, Jennifer, 10, and Amy Jo, 8, is manageable, but has drawbacks. "Carting possessions around is tough," says Barbara. "Suitcases, nighttime animals, half an outfit here, half there-no steady routine. The girls have to share one bedroom at both houses and they're reaching that preteen age of privacy...
DIED. Andre Laguerre, 63, bold, stimulating managing editor of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED for 14 years (1960-74); of a heart attack; in Manhattan. The London-born son of a French diplomat, Laguerre grew up in San Francisco, was drafted into the French army during World War II at the age of 24, was among the last soldiers evacuated from Dunkirk and served as General Charles de Gaulle's press attaché before joining TIME in 1946 as a foreign correspondent. In 1951 he worked on the personal staff of Editor in Chief Henry Luce. Five years later Laguerre...