Word: packs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dubbed "the honourable schoolboy" for his noble lineage and his bookish manner--to snarl the operations of the Soviet spy network. In usual fashion, Westerby's mission takes him to Hong Kong and Indochina, into the middle of an international narcotics ring and a KGB scheme to subvert a pack of Red Chinese politicos--and unavoidably, into a few bedrooms as well. But somewhere along the way, Westerby begins thinking unsoldierish thoughts, railing not only against the moves of the high-handed CIA "cousins" he runs up against, but also against his own training and beliefs. What results...
...touch of high adventure, the allure of beating taxes, and profit. Nor are Mob connections needed to make a go of it. An individual entrepreneur with a van can load up in North Carolina or Virginia, where the state tax is only 2? or 2½? a pack, head north on Interstate 95 (now known as Tobacco Road) and sell the cigarettes at a high profit hi New York and Connecticut, where state and local taxes are much higher (23? a pack in New York City plus the nationwide 8? federal...
What can be done? A simple solution would be to coax North Carolina and Virginia, the two biggest cigarette producers, into raising their per-pack taxes, thus eliminating the potential for profit. But that is not likely to happen; officials in those states think the problem is not that their taxes are too low but that taxes in Northern states are absurdly high. Says North Carolina Attorney General Rufus Edmisten: "I cannot justify spending countless hours looking for cigarette bootleggers who are not in violation of any of North Carolina's statutes." He is quite correct that they...
...season that has been a study in extremes. Saturday's contest marked the ultimate extreme. Had the Crimson won, it would have shared the title with Yale and Brown. Instead, it concluded the fall with a 4-5 record, deadlocked with Dartmouth and Penn in the middle of the pack...
...season is over, and the teams with the schizophrenic personalities--Harvard, Brown, Dartmouth and Penn--are back in the pack, while the not-so-schizophrenic Elis stand tall on top of the heap...