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Every year, $350 million worth of illegal narcotics get smuggled into the U.S. Most of the stuff comes from Turkey, Communist China and Thailand, moves through processing plants in France, then is passed by racketeers to dope pushers on street corners, in barrooms and pool halls. Last year the Bureau of Customs seized nearly 1,500 oz. of heroin, 48,000 oz. of marijuana at U.S. ports and borders. That is a big haul, but not nearly big enough. The smuggling trade is still profitable enough to satisfy the needs of the nation's 48,000 narcotic addicts...
...Mary Keyserling, 53, economist, wife of Harry Truman's economic adviser Leon Keyserling. Job: director, Women's Bureau, Labor Department...
Many police forces have elaborate electronic departments. Clandestine eavesdropping has featured increasingly in big-time legal battles, including the Bobby Baker hearings in Washington and Frank Sinatra Jr.'s kidnaping case. Not too unhappily, Andrew J. Palermo, chief investigator for Boston's Central Secret Service Bureau, allows: "Nobody is safe anywhere...
...nation's most carefully watched economic indicator-the Bureau of Labor Statistics' cost of living index, to which the wages of 2.5 million U.S. workers are tied-will appear this week in a new statistical form. It has undergone the first major changes in a decade, to make it better reflect the expenses incurred by a modern family...
...Bureau of Labor Statistics has assigned different values to the food, housing, transportation and service sections of the index to get a more accurate reading of monthly price movements. Food is expected to be less important than in the existing index, and housing and transportation relatively more so. With the first sniff of inflation in the air, a key question is whether the new index, with its heavier emphasis on services, will rise faster than the old one, which has crept up 1.2% annually since...