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...laced an eight iron shot next to the cup but then jerked his three footer off-line. He finished with a 35 going out, his only bogey on the front nine coming on the dog-leg par five fifth hole, when his third shot skittered across the postage stamp green...
Thus began the most successful series of raids that Vecchio and his men have ever carried out. Their quarry: cigarette smugglers. Inside the warehouse, they found three tax-stamp counterfeiting machines-two still in the paper bags brought by the men from the Mercury, the third already mounted and in operation. Fanning out, Vecchio's men raided four other tobacco distributors, confiscated 50,000 cartons of cigarettes and arrested eleven men-including three major wholesalers and Murray Kessler, 52, identified by police as a high-ranking member of the Vito Genovese mob. But, says Vecchio, "it was only...
Elusive Racket. The Mob's operation is highly sophisticated. Some families are believed to own North Carolina dealerships, which supply them with cigarettes free of the North Carolina tax stamp. Their trucks are equipped with two-way radios and escorted by scout cars on the lookout for police. On a typical run, the cigarettes are loaded onto giant tractor-trailers capable of hauling as many as 60,000 cartons at a time. As they near their destination, they are transferred to smaller trucks to reduce the risk of detection and the loss in case of seizure. Once...
...reviewers of Harvard's Affirmative Action plan and practice. While some saw it a little differently, the overwhelming majority of the TFAA was well aware that the federal government was no friend of the students and workers struggling for democratic rights. At best, we expected the government to rubber-stamp Harvard's performance. But we were also aware that the arrival of the federal reviewers offered us a unique opportunity to bring our case to the national public and put the spotlight on the U.S. government for, not only its non-enforcement of Affirmative Action, but also its tacit...
...priorities seem implicit in the autobiography that Carter wrote as he set out on his presidential quest. Yet despite his credentials-boyhood in and manhood return to South Georgia, a couple of terms in the state legislature, the governorship-how much of a Southern stamp does Carter really have? After all, he left Georgia at 18 for the U.S. Naval Academy, was exposed there to everything from ballroom dancing to naval strategy, followed that with windows on the non-Southern world in such places as Oahu, Hong Kong and Schenectady...