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Poppy's plot is poppycock. Two U.N narcotics agents (Howard and Marshall) assigned to trace a shipment of radio activated opium from the poppy field of Persia to the junk shops of Harlem whip out their trusty Geiger counter and go lickety-click from Teheran to Geneva to Naples to Nice. En route they run a grim gauntlet of all-too-familiar thriller scenes (bang-bang on the Blue Train, hugger-mugger on the bad guy's yacht, hack-the-stripper in a nudie nightspot) and unpleasantly overripe chestnuts ("How'll we get there-take the midnight...
...juvenile offenders indicate that many potential psychotics may be identifiable and curable while in their teens, and an important segment of the medical profession has not given up hope of finding the cure to psychosis in the chemistry of the brain. While science may never develop a foolproof psychiatric Geiger counter or a cerebral "Pap smear" for spotting every psychotic in advance, there is no doubt that far more can be done within the resources of the Great Society to pare the danger of sudden, irrational murder...
...years Mrs. Burnice Iverson Geiger played Lady Bountiful to the little town of Sheldon, Iowa (pop. 4,251). Daughter of the president of the Sheldon National Bank, Burnice could always be counted on to help a needy family or befriend a deserving cause. It seemed as if half the folks in Sheldon could have testified to her generosity...
Last week Burnice Iverson Geiger, now 63, returned to Iowa on parole, after serving five years of a 15-year sentence in the Federal Reformatory for Women in Alderson, W. Va. It was not much of a homecoming. Her husband had died shortly after her trial; her father and mother, 89 and 84, were living in retirement-Burnice had broken the bank. As for her capital gains, wherever they were, both federal and state governments were still waiting for Burnice's release to claim at least $900,000 in unpaid taxes...
...recent work, Bowie has concentrated on problems of the Atlantic Community, and has done a large number of articles and studies in this field. They include a report, done with Theodore Geiger, on the "European Economic Community and the United States," which was prepared for the Subcommittee on Foreign Economic Policy of the Joint Economic Committee of Congress...