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Under the Baby. To the bureau, enforcement is the key to solving the narcotics problem. Some 46,000 known addicts illegally buy heroin in the U.S., many of them from pushers. The Chinese Communists wax rich by exporting large amounts of heroin to the free world, much of which ends up in the U.S. To combat the traffic in narcotics, the bureau's agents work under cover, infiltrate gangs, even act as couriers between criminals. Often they have to shoot it out with narcotics racketeers. They have to watch for dope in some of the most unlikely places-hidden...
...clues to such offenders never stops. Many IRS agents spend much of their time scanning the newspapers, carefully clipping anything that might point to a suspicious tax situation: a gossip-column item that a movie star has bought a yacht, a crime story reporting the discovery of a heroin cache, a doctor's indictment for malpractice. The Service also gets help from tips by informers, who are frequently disgruntled employees, wives or girl friends. Last year the IRS collected $12 million as a result of informers' tips, paid them $522,000 (they...
...society. They prefer to wear beards and blue jeans, avoid soap and water, live in dingy tenements or, weather permitting, take to the road as holy hoboes, pilgrims to nowhere. Most of them adore Negroes, junkies, jazzmen and Zen. The more extreme profess to smoke pot, eat peyote, sniff heroin, practice perversion. They are, in short, bohemians; the squalor of their lives is reflected in their verse...
...Continental European ways of handling addiction. Britain, with almost one-third the population of the U.S., claims to have only 400 to 500 addicts and no problem of an illicit drug trade or larceny or prostitution to finance the habit. In Britain, a physician may prescribe morphine, or even heroin (which no U.S. doctor can prescribe for any purpose), to a thoroughly "hooked" addict, who then gets his shots at a chemist's shop for two shilling's (28?) apiece. Most Western European countries report comparable addiction rates, have similar prescription laws...
Other holdovers: the Brecht-Weill-Blitzstein Threepenny Opera, heading toward its 2,300th performance; The Connection, a now famed pad full of Method hipsters seeking to prove that the opiate of the people is heroin; and Little Mary Sunshine, a boffo operetta satirizing the Kerny, Frimlous past. Among worthy revivals, there is a superlative production of Ibsen's Hedda Gabler, a welcome reprise of Epitaph for George Dillon, by John Osborne and Anthony Creighton, and one sleeper, The Octoroon, a reasonably lively, reasonably funny-by-now melodrama of pre-Civil War days...