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...show them the article in TIME, which I am tempted to frame. (MRS.) HEARTIE ANNE LOOK Goleta, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 7, 1964 | 2/7/1964 | See Source »

...night, the smugglers' boats crept into the mangrove-fringed inlets of Florida's Keys, their running lights doused, their engines throttled down to a throaty chuckle. Among the trees a car waited, ready to whisk the refugees northward through Miami. The smugglers' boats are mostly goletas-small, dirty fishing smacks and schooners used in the coconut and banana trade. Often, the goleta will rendezvous with a faster U.S. boat for the run to the Florida coast. Masters of bigger boats prefer to land their cargoes further up the coast, as far north as Norfolk, to elude...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IMMIGRATION: Smugglers' Trove | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

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