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...apparently have managed to sew the heroin into the corpses in Southeast Asia. While the body count is low these days, it only takes a few to bring in a sizable cache of drugs. The smugglers can do this-as well as travel back and forth at will-by dint of counterfeit credentials. On this flight the heroin was presumably removed at Hickam Field, where many military transports from Indochina stop for 16 to 24 hours before proceeding to the mainland. The planes there are under minimal guard...
...dint of hard work and unromantic planning, Spain is doggedly building itself into an industrial power. The gross national product has grown an average 6.1% annually since 1964, and at $32.2 billion is 13th in the non-Communist world, just behind Sweden and ahead of The Netherlands. Per capita income has surpassed $1,000 per year, up from $317 in 1960; that is still well behind the Common Market countries but light-years ahead of a prewar standard of living that compared to Bulgaria and Portugal. Spain is the world's fourth largest shipbuilder, ranks 13th in steel production...
...candid, 1¾-hour television documentary showing how she and her flock behaved in private. Although still every inch a Queen, she has projected the image of a modestly attractive matron whom anybody would be proud to have as an aunt. That is, if she were not, by dint of birth and the abdication of an uncle, tied up with the responsibilities of the world's most prestigious surviving monarchy...
...help themselves. Successive waves of immigrants took those lessons to heart, and they aimed for what they thought was the ultimate success open to them -middle-class status. They almost deified Horatio Alger's fictional heroes, like Ragged Dick, who struggled up to the middle class by dint of hard work...
...novel is divided into three parts, the first of which is a third-person expository account of Comrade V.'s opprobrious persecution at the hands of a nameless fatherland. A celebrated mathematician, by dint of his liberal political positivism, V. is incarcerated in an obscure "large building, a few versts east of the capital." Seated in his sterile cubicle V. watches a diffraction of his own life-history pass by on a computer print-out sheet which appraises us of his peculiar character. A child mathematics prodigy, he had successfully voided people from his world-scheme...