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...never since availed." Well, hardly ever. The defense was recognized for the first time in a federal court in 1915. In two later cases-involving a police agent in 1932 who begged an acquaintance for some bootleg liquor and a paid informer in 1958 who led a reformed addict back to drugs and then got him arrested for dealing-the Supreme Court drew a line "between the trap for the unwary innocent and the trap for the unwary criminal...
...trick you into some mistake," says one Frenchwoman who recently underwent such questioning. "For example, the inspector asked me whether I'd ever been married before. I said I hadn't. Any children? I said no. Then he asked whether I had ever been a prostitute or a drug addict or a Communist or a fascist, and was I coming to America to overthrow the Government? Then, as if he'd forgotten, he said, 'What was your first husband's name?' " On the other hand, there are indeed rackets by which immigrants seek to circumvent the rules...
...schedule. The MBTA system is pretty small by comparison--it has only four lines, and closes down before 1 a.m., eliminating the best hours for hanging out, but the Boston subways have a certain spirit of their own which merits the attention of even the most crazed Brooklyn BMT addict...
...qualms about it," she says of her nude scene with Co-Star Rock Hudson, a physician-researcher who cultivates Barbara from birth, so to speak, in his basement laboratory. In her role, the Nicaraguan-born actress grows quickly into the good doctor's lovemate, then a dope addict and finally a 120-year-old hag. Though she bares all in the movie, the actress is far from revealing about her age. "I've lied about it so long, I'd just like to keep it that way," she says...
...husband-wife team's bleak as sessment came ten years after the original, optimistic report on their own pioneering experiments, which showed methadone could satisfy an addict's craving for heroin without causing its dazelike highs or hellish lows and helped inspire the nationwide methadone program. Blaming its failure directly on the Government, they complain bitterly of many "politically inspired controls." Relegated to jammed clinics, addicts are often processed on a "take-it-or-leave-it basis"; little or no effort is made to provide the supportive counseling or job help that made the original Dole-Nyswander experiments...