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Although they are generally long on education (and long on hair), the young tourists are strictly bush-league smugglers. Says Agent Cusack: "They use methods that would make a professional pusher blush-putting the stuff in the mail or hiding it under the back seat of a car." In Algeciras, Spanish customs officers last year arrested 64 Americans as they stepped off the ferry from Morocco. If Moroccan dope peddlers have not already fingered the Americans in advance, Spanish agents have little trouble picking out probable smugglers. The giveaways: hippy dress ("a long or loose anything"), and talkative over-friendliness...
...that the Moscow industrial ministries-many of which were criticized by Pravda last week-have been reluctant to surrender their authority. The ministries, in fact, have often "violated the rights granted to enterprises," according to Aleksandr Bachurin, deputy chairman of the U.S.S.R. State Planning Committee. In the first blush of reform during 1966, the "Engine of the Revolution" diesel factory in Gorky reduced the number of its products from 18 to the four that its managers thought could be produced most efficiently. In 1968, on orders from the Ministry of Heavy, Power and Transport Machine Building, it increased the number...
...blush to be so philosophical in theory, and such a wretched creature in practice," Voltaire admitted. "All tastes at once have entered my soul." Among them: the taste for rebelling and the taste for survival-rather splendid survival at that. Living with his mistress, Madame du Châtelet, in the château of Cirey, Voltaire powdered and dressed as if in Paris. She and Voltaire dined in elegance "with lots of silver," gave glittering balls, and inveigled house guests into amateur theatricals. Cirey had its own theater; and between noon and 7 o'clock the next morning...
...Taylor's central characters perform their own self-analysis. Each is tremendously curious and thoughtful about what and why something is happening to him and why he reacts as he does. The reader experiences with him every nervous blush, sweat, grope, and moment of insight...
...Moby Dick? In framing answers, Noel Perrin, professor of English at Dartmouth, takes as his point of departure Dr. Thomas Bowdler, who had a passion for chess and prison reform and an aversion to London smog, sick people, and all writing that, as he put it, "can raise a blush on the cheek of modesty." Certainly the Family Shakespeare (first edition 1807, second edition 1818) became the most popular expurgation in literary history. It gave Bowdler's name immortality as part of the language. But Perrin is up against not one man but a state of mind...