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South Florida is just beginning to be the crime capital of the nation, but it has been the drug capital for a decade. Smuggling dope into the region is about as difficult as buying a souvenir in Miami Beach. "They land it in everything but a bathtub," marvels Patrolman Doug Morris of the Dade County public safety marine patrol, whose dozen men and six boats help patrol the 550 sq. mi. of county waterways. "Hell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Florida: Trouble in Paradise | 11/23/1981 | See Source »

...arresting officers in which Smith was killed. The pair had been spotted in New York City on a Queens highway. They were riding in a car bearing a license plate seen on another car at the Nyack Shootout. Last week their connection with the robbery was confirmed by a souvenir found in Smith's pocket: a spent .38-cal. bullet, which had apparently failed to penetrate the bulletproof vest he was wearing. The slug was traced to the gun of Sergeant Edward O'Grady, one of the two policemen killed in Nyack. "Very strong evidence," said Rockland County...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Heading for the Last Roundup | 11/9/1981 | See Source »

...wedding captured front-page headlines around the world. It even moved the gray Times of London to do the unthinkable: the paper published a color photograph of the royal couple as a souvenir front page on Thursday. The Economist had a color news page for the first time in its 138-year history. Japan's Yomiuri Shimbun (circ. 8 million), the largest newspaper in the world, deemed the wedding story important enough to rush in a color photo midway through its evening press run. But by week's end such energy had begun to dissipate. Most reporters were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: The Vows Heard Round the World | 8/10/1981 | See Source »

...course, there were all those revenues from wedding-souvenir sales and the tourist trade to consider, although tourism surprisingly fell a bit short of expectations, with rooms to spare at several major London hotels. An extra $200 million for souvenirs and $440 million more in tourism were expected to augment the national coffers. But in the matter of budget and expense vs. value rendered, the Windsors, who are monarchs not only for a nation but for the international media, found themselves up against a conventional show-business maxim: It is only when you bomb out that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Magic in the Daylight | 8/3/1981 | See Source »

...play their instruments." Darby still hasn't learned to sing into the mike during performances. Instead, he lurches across and off the stage topless, his baby fat segueing to paunch, his voice clogged with booze and speed, his bruised, burned and scarred body looking like a souvenir from a guerrilla war in which he was the only participant. He passes time offstage with his pet tarantula and his friend Michelle, who giggles about the day she and Darby discovered a corpse in their backyard. At night Darby wanders through rock halls as the more engaged members of the audience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: LA. Dolce Vita | 7/27/1981 | See Source »

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