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...wanted to send my brother," said the man casually. "All right," said the policeman, "let's take it to my office, and we'll eat it together." At headquarters the police opened the package. It contained three pounds of heroin wrapped for delivery to a dope pusher in New York City...
...pusher" (retail peddler) of narcotics is under irresistible pressure to win fresh converts to addiction. Each addict, in turn, is likely to become a pusher, widening the vicious circle. Reported Manhattan's General Sessions Judge Jonah Goldstein: 1) 99% of convicted narcotics peddlers are also users, and therefore peddling to insure their own supply; 2) 30% of all persons convicted of any crime are narcotics users, driven to crime because this is the only way they can raise the money ($15 to $100 a day) that they have to pay for the drugs...
...Pedal Pusher. In Atlanta, during a test for a driver's license, Mrs. Maude Pierce, 42, stepped on the gas instead of the brake, cracked into a utility pole, smashed into a parked car, demolished her own, sent the test supervisor to the hospital with head and hip injuries...
...fabric and easily inflated by compressed air machines or by a regular tire pump. When deflated, the wing is small enough to fit in a car's trunk compartment. Inflated, the wing sits on posts above a 10-ft. wooden fuselage, is held in place by struts. A pusher-propeller, powered by a 65-h.p. engine, gives the plane a top speed of 45 m.p.h. The 550-lb. Flying Mattress is easy to fly. With no wind, it requires only a 100-yd. landing strip; in strong winds, it lands almost vertically. Already flight-tested by the Ministry...
...field. He can neither fashion the future nor alter the past. His only power lies in the immediate present, and every effort to extend it ends in failure and frustration . . . Malraux seems to resent it that man fails to qualify as God's private secretary or chief button-pusher for some nuclear Jove. There is some evidence that man is approaching the latter, but unfortunately the only button on the horizon is destructive. Doubtless some Malraux will push the damn thing to prove his importance ... I'm glad I don't have such an abnorMalraux...