Word: illicitness
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...most humiliating incident in the history of the nation's largest police department. First, New York City Police Commissioner Patrick Murphy announced that 57 lbs. of confiscated heroin was missing from the property-storage room. The next day it developed that an additional 24 Ibs. had disappeared. Estimated illicit retail value: $15 million or more. The cache constituted the bulk of the heroin seized in the 1962 case upon which the film The French Connection was based...
...hierarchy of criminals, forgers and safecrackers have long enjoyed elite status because of their special skills. Now they may be topped by the computer criminal. According to Stanford Research Institute Computer Specialist Donn B. Parker, who recently completed a study of 100 crimes involving computers, the potential for illicit gain from the machines is so vast that dishonest employees and even ambitious outsiders will increasingly be tempted to put their knowledge to unlawful use. A handful of keypunch crooks have already thought of some ingenious ways to defraud the Brain, with varying results. Some examples...
...Masters discussions on sex began when President Bok, irked by a spate of letters from concerned parents who suspected that illicit goings on were occurring here, asked them to figure out what the rules are about students cohabitation, whether these rules are being broken, and what could be done to enforce them...
These statements, both by experts deeply concerned about epidemic drug abuse, typify the growing controversy over methadone as a substitute for heroin. Last week, in a book that may help to resolve the controversy, Consumers Union came out strongly on the Dole side of the argument. Licit and Illicit Drugs, a five-year study by Medical Writer Edward Brecher and the editors of Consumer Reports (Little, Brown; $12.50), advocates legalizing marijuana, supplying heroin, opium and morphine to some addicts on an experimental basis, and providing methadone maintenance-legal administration of methadone to heroin users-for every drug abuser who asks...
BRATTLE. Illicit Interlude, 6:30, 9:45. Three Strange Loves, 8:10, weekend mats...