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Smugglers are wary of sharp-eyed immigration agents and highway patrolmen, and must frequently take back roads and lengthy detours. Sophisticated smugglers, some of whom make $75,000 a year, employ two-way radios, lookout cars, and rented vehicles that are hard to trace. A few unscrupulous operators have even been known to recruit willing mojados, load them into a waiting vehicle at $250 a head, and then renege on the contract by dumping them 15 miles north of the Mexican border for a tidy profit with no risk involved, since their victims can hardly complain to the police...
...Department had made it hard for him to get a fair trial in the courts. In two press conferences since the investigation was announced Aug. 6, Agnew had lambasted the leaks, demanding that Richardson locate the culprits in his department and dismiss them. Richardson said that he could not trace the leaks; Agnew's staff felt that he would not. When Peter Malatesta, one of Agnew's aides, was asked what was new with his boss, Malatesta returned: "Don't ask me ? ask the Justice Department. That's where the leaks come from. I've done my Christmas shopping...
...mostly of O16. But it also contains small amounts of other isotopes−oxygen 17 and 18, which were apparently formed later in the sun's history. To the Chicago researchers, the implications are very exciting: the grains may well predate the formation of the solar system and trace back to interstellar dust out of which stars and planets are born...
...shed their ethnic identity and join the melting pot. Now, with Americanism under something of a cloud, people are rediscovering their ethnic roots and returning to native dress and behavior. Buttons proclaim: KISS ME, I'M POLISH, HUNGARIAN POWER and ESKIMO POWER. Richard Nixon has boasted of his trace of Irish ancestry, and George Wallace allows as how he has Jewish in-laws. Practically nobody tries to pass for a WASP any more...
...sense Hawkins has already had his wish-with the help of aerial surveys, radiocarbon dating and a computer. As a Boston University astronomer, he has been able to program the orbits of the sun and moon, then order a computer to trace them backward in time...