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...Hospital and witnessed on the street below a long session of bargaining between several Chinese drug traffickers and an undercover agent with $200,000 in cash. The final "connection" took place several blocks away, followed within minutes by flashing police lights, drawn guns, and the biggest New York heroin haul of the summer...
...investigation, they discovered 937 Ibs. of pure heroin hidden in the ballast. It was the largest narcotics haul in history, worth up to $400 million on the New York streets...
...Burnham in the Times. Going beyond the Knapp group, Seymour used City Detective Robert Leuci as an undercover man, gathering evidence of payoffs and other malfeasance. Eventually the prosecutor assembled a force of 40 local and federal agents who made liberal use of underworld informants. He anticipated a huge haul, but Leuci got restive. He was in danger much of the time, his family under constant guard, and Seymour felt he needed encouragement...
...philosophy professor at Ohio's Kenyon College and an editor of Art News before he joined Newsweek in 1954. Last week, while Lansner talked about "becoming a human being again, even having weekends off," Elliott claimed to welcome his own return to the grind. "It was a long haul," he said of his previous stint as editor, "but now the pressure has cooled, and I'm looking forward to going back in. I guess I'm gung-ho." A former TIME writer who joined Newsweek in 1955, he will not say how long he intends to occupy...
Those express lanes should be extremely useful, especially along heavily traveled short-haul routes -between New York and Washington, say, where a combination of delays on the ground and in the air often slows jet travel to a train's pace. In addition, since the plane will be constantly guided by its own instruments, R-Nav will relieve already overburdened airtraffic controllers who are now kept busy constantly giving pilots new navigation directions. Equally important, R-Nav will permit planes to make bad-weather landings at airports that do not have approach radar or instrument landing systems; it will...