Word: smugglers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...beach house in La Jolla, Calif., Hannes Alfvén returned to bed after he got the news. Inside his lab in Buenos Aires, Luis Leloir squirmed uncomfortably as his colleagues toasted him with test tubes and flasks filled with Old Smuggler Scotch. At a restaurant in France, Louis Néel barely bothered to interrupt his lunch. "There are only a few Nobel prizes," he explained, "yet there are many good physicists." The modesty of the 1970 Nobel laureates in physics and chemistry last week was becoming, but less than indicative of their achievements...
...libel suit that Raphael later brought against her-"that he pretended, and still pretends to hold an academic title to which he is not entitled." She also said that he had "strange associations with very dubious people-a man who has underground connections, a card gambler and a smuggler," and that he "visited dubious places of entertainment, where he received special treatment, and neglected his family." Golda Meir's strong moral views are well known; Raphael did not get the post...
...Greene, meanwhile, is proceeding with a sociopsychological striptease of Aunt Augusta. For while she has the pouter-pigeon arrogance of a Wilde dowager, she is revealed after a dance of the seven veils as a smuggler, a member of a group of traveling tarts, and a lover of men who are unlovable to others. Somewhere along the line, like Greene, she has become a Catholic but, again like Greene, she has a weakness for touching the "untouchable." Her last untouchable is an Italian of fathomless duplicity named Visconti, who has bilked everyone from cardinals to oil sheiks...