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...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, and supplied them with the needed air circulation by connecting fans in the trunk to the car's cigarette-lighter outlet...
...York City, Max Toth, president of the Toth Pyramid Co., claims that his cardboard Pyramid Razor Blade Sharpener (price: $3.50) will more than pay for itself by producing blades that never dull. Evering Associates, which markets Toth's products in Canada, says they can be used to dehydrate tropical fish for display purposes. Small stuff, perhaps, but Inventor Patrick Flanagan, who sells his own pyramid line in Glendale, Calif., reports that the device has improved his sexual sensitivity...
Wicker handles the technical problems of flash-backs to carry the narrative but his characters are always two-dimensional, cardboard stereotypes: A newspaper man, a senator, his beautiful wife, a political boss who wears green glasses, a collection of local southern politicians...
...Polaroid are the only other local institutions that recycle office paper, Merrill said. MIT, however, is using cardboard boxes as recycling containers and this violates the Occupational Safety and Health Act, he added
Scarcely a week after they overturned the Marxist government of Salvador Allende Gossens and seized power, the generals of Chile were acting rather like the colonels of Greece, or even like the cardboard military figures of a Costa-Gavras movie. They went methodically about eliminating traces of Allende's proposed evolution to socialism in matters both great and small. Snipers and suspected leftists were rounded up, and Marxist literature in bookstores was banned. Soldiers, suspecting long-haired civilians of leftist views, arbitrarily gave some of them haircuts. Barbershops were jammed as shaggy-tressed youths rushed to be sheared...