Word: yugo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they have to pay by a host of wily methods. They lie on their declarations, and use forged documents, doctored contracts, paper shuffling and tricky bookkeeping to fool the customs men. Their schemes often involve bringing in cheaper merchandise from behind the Iron Curtain: canned meat from Poland and Yugo slavia, steel, machinery and porcelain from East Germany, heating pipe from Hungary and even camel hair that probably originates somewhere in Asiatic Russia...
Italy's fever-eyed film queen Gina (Go Naked in the World) Lollobrigida prepared to become Canada's most glamorous immigrant of the year. Reason: she was weary of trying to untangle Italian red tape that prevented her stateless Yugo slavian-born husband, Dr. Milko Skofic, from becoming an Italian citizen. Father and son, 2½-year-old Milko Jr., winged off with Gina from Rome on a trip that will end in Toronto, where the family will buy a home, hopefully apply for Canadian citizenship...