Diary Of A Customs Inspector

July, 1974

Diary of a Customs Inspectordoes this group have anything to declare--that is, aside from the grass in the bra, the skinned monkey, the 141 mangoes and the deceased's ashes?Frank Jacobs wrote this piece with Peter Pitkin (a pseudonym), who spent three summers as a customs inspector at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport.June 30, 1971: I work in a fish bowl populated by mental midgets. Friends and relatives waiting upstairs try to catch the attention of arriving passengers by poundin...