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...compact than marijuana, and worth almost six times its weight in gold, there are simpler methods of shipment. A commercial air traveler flying from Bogota can make $10,000 tax free by carrying a pound about the size of a paperback book. Many passengers do. They carry the white powder on their bodies, inside candy bars or toothpaste tubes, under slightly askew wigs, sewn into leather saddles...
Braniff Flight 922 from Bogota to Los Angeles is nicknamed "the cocaine special." One scam is for a passenger to hide the powder somewhere on the plane, clear customs in Los Angeles, reboard the plane for the continuation to San Francisco, then collect his hidden coke. Panel bolts in many planes are visibly worn from smugglers' screwdrivers. Four unclaimed kilos were found last month in one jet's nose cone...
...boss, "Martinez," has five divers working for him. He cuts the coke by 50% with borax, a cheap powder that adds a lot of weight but nothing else to the once pure coke. At each stage of dealing, the coke will be cut with substances such as procaine, lactose or?for an extra buzz ?amphetamines. When finally consumed, it may be no more than 10% pure. Martinez deals only with people he knows well. It is up to these additional middlemen, who know the right artists and hairdressers and doormen, to push it further toward the users...
...Booker. 20. Jeff Mullins, Ricky Barry, Nate Thurmond, Guy Rodgers and Rudy LaRusso. 25. Steve Previs. 26. Greg Samuels (not Otto Petty). 27. Adrian Smith. 28. 10, 35, 15. 29. 16, 48, 42. 30. 23. 31. 8. 32. 2(home), 4(away). 33. Jay Carty. 34. "Shower-to-shower" powder. 35. Jim Pansulo. 36. One (he got the heave after his freshman year). 37. Larue Martin 38. Stan Love. 39. James-Brown. 40. All were first round draft choices by the Philadelphia 76ers during the early seventies. All were terrible. 41. 1971, Red Klotz. 42. UCLA--Walton, Lee, Curtis, Wilkes...
...achieve these and other appearances, the modern woman can select from an array of contouring creams, blushes, enamels, colors and scents that would have staggered Ophelia or even her own mother, who got by with only basic lipstick and powder. A big cosmetics company today produces around 2,500 shades of nail polish, many with matching lipsticks, of course. Plus different perfumes, colognes, toilet waters and other fragrances to be worn at the supermarket, on the tennis court, when running?yes, when running?when dining, when saying goodnight to her Sweet Prince. Plus unnumbered shampoos, moisturizers, eye shadows, lip glosses...