Word: contrabanding
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...found the award to be as much an advertising gimmick as a guarantee to consumers. The legislator contends that the main criterion for granting the seal is whether a manufacturer agrees to place his advertising in Good Housekeeping magazine. In fact, the Food and Drug Administration has seized as "contraband" for quality and safety reasons at least two products advertised in the magazine, and is reportedly investigating several others...
...government. Some officials, dubbed the "golden bureaucrats" by Belaúnde's critics, were revealed to be getting salaries as high as $3,000 a month -stunningly generous by Peruvian standards. It was shown that a navy troopship had made no less than four trips smuggling in contraband. Then came the affair that caused the coup against him by the disgruntled armed forces. Belaúnde had rashly promised to expropriate the U.S.-owned International Petroleum Co. "the very day I am inaugurated." He did not, primarily because he did not want to antagonize Standard Oil (New Jersey...
Despite the risk for the authors, Western publishers go to considerable lengths to obtain Russian manuscripts. The latest literary contraband, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's novel Cancer Ward, is at the very least a tribute to their competitive zeal. As of last week, it had already been printed in excerpts by two magazines, in full by one publisher, and was being readied for printing by at least two others-a wild maze of editions even for the strange world of literary smuggling...
...TIME, Dec. 1), brought on by a suit filed by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and Bridgewater Superintendent Charles A. Gaughan, among others. In the petition, the state's attorney general, Eliot Richardson, charged that Wiseman invaded the inmates' privacy by photographing them nude during "skin searches" for contraband. Richardson also claimed that he broke an agreement to submit the film for review and approval and assured Bridgewater officials that Titticut was being made only for educational purposes. Instead, Wiseman showed the film at the New York Film Festival last September first. What's more, he booked...
...federal rule barred his seized clothes as evidence. For under a 1921 Supreme Court decision (Gouled v. U.S.), federal police were allowed to seize only four kinds of evidence: the loot of a crime; the tools by which it was committed; the means of escape, such as weapons; and contraband, such as counterfeit money. All else was inadmissible as "mere evidence." In 1961, ruling on Mapp v. Ohio, the Supreme Court ordered state as well as federal courts to exclude evidence seized in violation of the Fourth Amendment...