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Diamonds in Chocolate Bars. By ground, sea and air-they come. The Chilean navy recently fought a noisy battle with the crew of a freighter loaded with a contraband cargo of cigarettes, whisky and, of course, soap. In Venezuela police found themselves confiscating the same launch three times-the smugglers simply kept buying it back at auction. In Argentina one crafty operator kept police baffled by using two planes with the same markings and registration-one for smuggling and one for legitimate freight. Other pros ship Scotch in gasoline tankers, diamonds in chunky chocolate bars, cigarettes under false truck floor...
...Cotton Committee. Grumbles one Genoa importer: "The condition of U.S. cotton cries out for revenge." Some countries are beginning to take revenge. Communist Bulgaria judged a shipment to be so shoddy that it not only delayed unloading the $2,750,000 cargo last month but impounded the Danish freighter that carried it. Last week the Bulgars finally released the ship - after its owners agreed to put up $350,000 pending an international investigation to determine whether the cotton was damaged in transit...
...oogah! and away they go to rescue the crew of a Japanese freighter. On the way Chakiris and Widmark sleep at the stick for as long as 20 minutes, while the customers fossick through expository flashbacks. No sweat, however. Everybody can plainly see that the search plane is parked on a sound stage and the Japanese are floundering in the studio tank. In this film it is the moviemakers who are really...
...crew, it's just wage-slavery. Hours on end I've looked into the wake, occasionally thinking but mostly glad for the hypnosis: what some joker once called "the romance of the deep." Inevitably, a college "kid" or a "young blood" becomes a mascot, especially on a freighter with a small crew, about 60 all told. (The United States would carry over 1200 in crew though it never sails with all hands.) And then, immediately, you begin to hear the troubles of all the older men, and their bull as well. It's easy to become insensate, but finally...
...British Commonwealth, the council has turned unabashedly to the Communists for economic aid. Babu has lined up a $500,000 cash handout from Red China, with promises of Chinese credits to come. In exchange for 500 tons of cloves (world market price: around $800 a ton), the Soviet freighter Faisabad recently delivered 50 trucks to Zanzibar. After dark, the Faisabad unloaded a more dangerous Soviet cargo: small arms and artillery, complete with a band of "technicians," to train Zanzibar's new Youth Army in their...