Word: zoning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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HONOLULU, May 1--The Coast Guard intercepted the ketch Golden Rule skippered by former Lt. Cmdr. Albert Smith Bigelow '29, Thursday and took it in tow a short time after it had set sail from Honolulu in a defiant attempt to reach the U.S. nuclear test zone in the Pacific...
Dictator Juan Perón let Patagonian smuggling flourish from 1945 to 1953. In July 1956 President Pedro Aramburu revived the free zone with the old, futile hope that it could make an eroded wasteland blossom. Instead, refrigerators, watches, lingerie, television sets and bubble gum began moving across the border. Wooden handles stamped "made south of parallel 42" were slapped into imported shovels, wooden bases with the same markings were attached to Japanese sewing machines, and all the loot found its way north to market. Most lucrative item of all was the automobile, legally subject to duties of six times...
With such profits available for bribes, no crackdown short of abolishing the free zone is likely to work. Aramburu made a token start by banning importation of a few luxury items to Patagonia. Last week customs announced the arrest of three leaders of one car-smuggling ring. But in Puerto Madryn the steamer went on unloading the jewelry, 5,000 cases of whisky, 1,000 cases of rum, bales of Brussels lace, crates of fireworks. As every Patagonian knew, such choice merchandise was not going to the goats...
Injuries to three front-line performers and a Pennsylvania zone defense were insufficient to stop the varsity lacrosse teams last Saturday at Philadelphia, as the Crimson downed the Quakers 6 to 4. The win evened Harvard's Ivy League record at one win and one defeat...
Although the score was relatively low, the attackmen kept play at the Penn end of the field for a large part of the game. They were effective in blocking Quaker clearing efforts and played a deliberate offense, as the Philadelphians employed their zone defense against the Crimson for the first time...