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...cops assert that France began to get on top of its growing narcotics problem only when it started imposing 20-year jail terms on drug dealers. In The Netherlands the maximum term is four years, but judges usually hand down sentences of only a year or so. Laments Inspector Cor Elbersen, head of the Amsterdam narcotics squad: "The drug traffic came to Holland because the sentences are lighter. I'd like to see stiffer penalties, but I'm tied by the laws of this country...
...news release, the Kennedy Cor- poration said it had commissioned Decision Research Corporation of Wellesley to interview 500 randomly-selected Cambridge residents...
...only clotheshorse Nicaragua is betting on. The postal service has issued a series of "Famous Couturiers of the World" stamps that reflects a more staid image than Bianca's. The series of eight includes a five-cordoba stamp ($2.00) for Balmain of Paris, a one-cor-doba stamp for the French designer Givenchy, and a 15-centavo stamp for Halston, the only American honored...
Like Dickens, Alger loved this world despite all the cruelty and cor ruption. His Wall Street district scenes give off a certain jolly hum. He describes a midtown brownstone as if his nose were pressed against the window. Writing of nickel rides on the el or six-course meals (wine included) for 75?, he exudes a kind of festivity...
...York's Museum of Modern Art announces that Picasso has given its sculpture garden a 15-foot-high version of one of these works, Construction in Wire, 1928. Based on a smaller maquette he made ten years ago, the monumental piece is being fabricated in Cor-Ten steel and will go to the museum in early fall. Thus there will be two key Picasso sculptures in the U.S. (the other is the sheet-metal Guitar, 1912), and MOMA has them both, as presents from the artist. Picasso's evident fondness for the museum-which already has the best...