Customs Service and the professional crooks and amateur smugglers who try to violate our import laws. the odds would seem to favor the forces of darkness. The service has only 250 agents and 525 uniformed port investigators in fulltime antismuggling police work. The lawbreaker. on the other hand. can be anyonea prim Bronx housewife. a dashing airlines pilot with a brilliant war record. an illiterate Oriental seamanand he or she can mask the smuggling activity in a big country against an almost unbelievable volume of international travel. In 1961 there were more than 158 million border crossings and port arrivals in the United States. The multitudes came by car. bus. train. ship. and plane. More than 27 million walked.
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