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Kendall C. Crook of Kokomo, Ind. (Government); R.L. Ehrenberg of Clifton, N.Y. (Physics); Nils E. Ekfelt of College Station, Tex.. (German): John B. Foster Jr. of Monkato, Minn. (Slavic); Andrew M. Lewis of Richmond, Va. (Mathematics); Stephen D. Roper of Portland, Ore. (Biology): Mark L. Rosenberg of Montclair, N.J. (Biology); Martin I. Slate of Quincy (Linguistics and Classics) and Mark V. Tushnet of Maplewood, N.J. (Government...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Phi Beta Kappa Names 99 Seniors Honors Them in Ceremony Today | 6/13/1967 | See Source »

...myth. Interpol never makes a pinch; it is merely the information broker that helps the world's police to help one another. The catch sounds small (some 2,000 arrests last year), but the effect is large. Interpol's prey is the big-time international crook-the jet-borne jewel thief or heroin smuggler who cannot be caught unless police spin a global...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Police: Global Beat | 6/9/1967 | See Source »

...tangle of wires for tape recorders, she waited outside Macy's in Manhattan one afternoon with a chief inspector. In another car parked near by, a second inspector, posing as a black-marketeer known as "Wally from Denver," was scheduled to make an incriminating deal with a genuine crook called "Tom." Wally had been offered a counterfeit version of Upjohn's antidiabetes drug, Orinase. His assignment: to persuade the racketeers to show him their manufacturing plant as proof that they could really deliver him 200,000 doses a week for a year or more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Drugs: Counterfeit Prescriptions | 6/2/1967 | See Source »

Margaret Kreig quotes a racketeer who was persuading a petty crook to move over to fake drugs from the numbers game, which had earned him many convictions: "There are no problems. It's not like junk [narcotics]. FDA has a helluva time making any kinda case. And when they get you-if they get you-it's only a misdemeanor for misbranding, or some such. So you hafta pay a couple hundred dollars' fine. You can make it back in a couple of hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Drugs: Counterfeit Prescriptions | 6/2/1967 | See Source »

...kids, he becomes the head rodent of the rat pack. From a hideout in a swamp, he sends them out with numerous blackmail messages threatening to expose the gangland's deepest secrets, his wife's extramarital capers, his partners' tampered tax returns. By hook and crook, he manages to mulct $3,000,000 in hush money. In a shabby shack, the kids rejoice around the suitcase full of loot; but while they grow frenetic, Quinn turns splenetic. Money, he decides in a jolting flash of insight, isn't everything, and in the end he sets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Homemade Bomb | 5/26/1967 | See Source »

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