Word: smugglerous
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...everybody was happy. When the time came last week to lower France's tricolor, sullen French officials did it surreptitiously, to foil eager Indian photographers. Pondicherry had been widely known as a "goodtime town" and a smuggler's paradise (less than 1% of the millions of dollars worth of watches, silks and other luxury goods imported into Pondicherry went to its local citizens). Last week elderly, solemn Indian officials moved into choice hotel rooms previously used as brothels. One disgruntled hotelman pointed to a big stack of empty whisky bottles beside his back veranda and sighed: "That...
...like Director John Huston admire his mind, and blondes his wire-and-whipcord body. He can keep a pub in fits of laughter or a softly lit drawing room at hushed attention. He is Mayfair's favorite criminal ("I'd like you to meet Eddie Chapman, my smuggler friend. Tell us about the jobs you've pulled lately, Eddie"). And low society in Britain pays him homage, for in his time, Eddie was the prince of safecrackers. After the war, it became apparent to all his acquaintances that Eddie had also been one of the coolest...
...found the G.N.R. a royal road to the unrationed paradise of the south, where fresh eggs and fresh meat were plentiful, and Guinness only seven-pence the pint (it cost twice as much m Belfast). The G.N.R.'s crack Belfast-Dublin Express came to be known as the Smuggler's Special because of the many travelers who rode south in their old clothes and returned in spanking new threads from Dublin's best tailors. One traveler who made the changeover in the train lavatory was embarrassed, after throwing his old suit out the window, to find that...
Smuggling, for centuries a profitable career in these waters, has been brought to an art by the Communists. Peking maintains an official purchasing agency in Macao called the Nan Kwong Trading Corp. Smugglers get an order from Nan Kwong, then wangle a Macao government import permit, place their order somewhere in Western Europe, and wait for the ships of the Portuguese-owned Companhia National de Navegaçáo to arrive. When the smuggler delivers the goods, profits are enormous...
...settling peasants' disputes over stray pigs. Last week, nervous Judge Fournier had a much bigger job; he auctioned off the $56 million Barcelona Traction, Light & Power Co., Ltd., which controls Spain's biggest public utility. As everyone expected, it went to crafty old Juan March, onetime tobacco smuggler who has become Spain's biggest businessman...