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...married a young cargo-ship owner named Charles Nevelson, who took her to live in New York. The city was the stronger marriage. "New York is a city of collage," Nevelson would pronounce 50 years later, at the dedication ceremony of one of her outdoor sculptures in lower Manhattan, "a collage with kinds of religions, and the whole thing is magnificent ... There's no place like...
...stepped-up Louisiana connection is similar to operations in Florida and along the Atlantic Coast: a large "mother ship" from Colombia, the source of about three-quarters of the marijuana entering the U.S., unloads its cargo into smaller vessels, which ferry the pot inland. The many unmanned offshore oil and gas wells in the area serve as excellent rendezvous points. Local fishing boats and the supply boats that serve the oil and gas drilling rigs off the coast are usually used for the ferry operation because they attract no undue attention. Pinched by rising fuel prices and foreign competition...
...unusual convoy. Three armored tractor-trailers were bound from the Denver Mint to the Bank of America in San Francisco last week with a $2.6 million cargo. When they stopped for the night in Oakland, Calif., at the Edgewater-West Adult Motor Inn, known for its X-rated movies, three bandits broke into one of the trucks. The driver on guard saw them only in time to fire his revolver at a Lincoln Continental speeding away...
...include French bicycles, Australian butter and Japanese beer-all at princely prices. A single can of root beer may fetch $6, a carton of cigarettes $140. The main source of the imports is an Air France flight that arrives every Friday from Bangkok with 45 tons of cargo. Vietnamese who live abroad but still have relatives back home send a steady stream of packages loaded with food, clothing or medicine that can be quickly sold on the black market...
...there with the mostest." But would the RDF arrive first with the most? Brown estimates that the Army's 82nd Airborne Division, which the Pentagon rates as the sharpest, most combat-ready unit in the U.S., would take several weeks to reach its destination because it lacks enough cargo planes to transport its equipment. A Marine division would take even longer to arrive by sea. A small war might be ended, disastrously or otherwise, by the time these forces were on the scene. Warns an Army staff officer: "With piecemeal efforts, you run the risk of piecemeal defeat...