Word: contrabanding
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Meanwhile, back on the ground, gruff but lovable Troubleshooter George Kennedy is struggling to clear the runway of snow, while the airport's p.r. girl, Jean Seberg, casts concerned glances at stoic Manager Lancaster. Customs Officer Lloyd Nolan tries to keep the flow of contraband at a minimum, but the flow of clichés is not, unfortunately, his department. Produced by Ross Hunter, fearless champion of the industry's carrière-garde (Pillow Talk and Thoroughly Modern Millie), the movie spends over two hours proving what every seasoned traveler already knows: waiting around airports...
False-bottomed crates containing sitars, incense, and 600 pounds of hash arrived at Logan Airport from Delhi on Feb. 11. Inspectors discovered the contraband, marked it with a fluorescent substance, repacked the crates, and allowed them to be forwarded to the addressee...
...died at 64 in France last year, after enjoying a muffled underground explosion of fame. Cosmos won the $20,000 International Prize for Literature. It is an achingly attenuated suspense story -except that it turns out that there is no object to the chase, no rich cache of contraband drugs, no key diplomatic documents and no blondes. Just a hanged sparrow, a hanged cat, a mysterious bit of wood suspended in a shed and, finally, a hanged man whose death is as meaningless...
...recommendations fall short of reforms sought by some in the Administration. There would still be no distinction between marijuana and such potent contraband as heroin. But they allow the judge the latitude to grant leniency in marijuana cases. Federal officials say that their proposals are more flexible than drug laws in about 35 states...
...stiff conditions. Food planes must fly during daylight to distinguish them from gunrunners who often head at night for Uli, Biafra's principal airstrip, and have proved difficult to distinguish from mercy flights. They must also land at Lagos or another Nigerian airfield to be searched for contraband before proceeding...