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...announced that the police and armed forces have so far seized nearly $1,000,000 in contraband. Indicative of the crackdown, the price of a pack of smuggled U.S.-made "Blue Seal" cigarettes in Manila has climbed in the past month from the normal 500 to 650, suggesting a distinct and abrupt shortage...
...distinct personality, a warmth. Dependable, forgiving, attentive, gracious and benevolent." What sounds like a paraphrase of the Boy Scout oath is the authors' sentimental tribute to an airplane, the DC-3, the twin-engine, 190 m.p.h. prop-driven craft that first flew 30 years ago and has entered Valhalla under its own power. Of the 10,000 built from 1936 to 1946, some 5,000 are still in the air, faithfully serving 174 airlines in 70 countries. In the heart of the jet age, the DC-3 still accounts for nearly one-third of the world...
Relations between the Moslem nations of Iraq and Iran have never been very warm. Most Iraqis are Arabs, but the majority of Iranians pride themselves on being ethnically distinct Persians. Each country has large numbers of its citizens residing across unguarded boundaries in the other, which encourages illegal immigration and smuggling...
Actually, doctors explained by way of quashing the rumors, the President was undergoing a normal convalescence. Many Americans-including Johnson-expected that he would return sooner to his hyperactive ways. Yet most gall-bladder patients take about three months to regain their strength completely, as distinct from the ability to walk normally, climb stairs, and take routine exercise-all of which Johnson has been doing...
...quickly saw that many small, regional producers were competing in the crowded field, and that Skyline would have to build a unique model and carve out a distinct market to survive. To do that, he designed a 20-ft., smaller-than-usual mobile home that had the advantage of being cheaper and more easily transportable than competing models. Once Skyline was on its feet, Decio got the idea of imitating the automakers' methods of frequent model changes and nationwide distribution. He introduced a "research and development" department to design new styles of mobile homes, started building a network...