Word: illicitness
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...Tighten up controls over pill-type drugs. Last week the House passed, 402 to 0, and sent to the Senate a bill requiring that records be kept, from lab to drugstore, on sales of barbiturates ("goofballs") and amphetamines. Illicit sales of such drugs to persons under 21 could be punished by two years in prison and a $5,000 fine, v. one year in prison and a $1,000 fine at present. For the narcotics addict who peddles dope mainly to finance his habit, a civil commitment statute under preparation would provide for rehabilitation rather than incarceration. - Halt mail-order...
...Received, from the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, a report on organized crime and illicit drug traffic in the U.S. It urged that Congress consider legalizing wiretapping, make it a crime to belong to organizations such as the Mafia, set up a national crime commission to investi gate crime and act as a clearinghouse for crime-fighting intelligence...
...Marxists." Ceylon's influential Buddhist monks, alarmed by the Marxist infiltration, began turning against the buxom Prime Minister. They particularly denounced a proposal, put forward by the Communists in the government, to permit the legal tapping of coconut trees and turn the sap into toddy, thus heading off illicit bootlegging and bringing new revenue into the treasury. When Mrs. Bandaranaike tried to win back the monks, who practice temperance, by promising to make Buddhism Ceylon's official religion, they refused for fear of coming under state control...
...important thing is style. "It's all right to get blasted, if you can be witty or brave," says Larry Futterman, 17, "but if you get sloppy, you're way out." Glue-sniffing and marijuana are also out, because they bring on major trouble from the cops. Illicit sex is discussed more intensely than it is practiced, but even the talk is becoming boring since it involves a responsibility wary Pali teen-agers are not willing to accept...
Marseille is the halfway house on the world's main route of illicit drug traffic. Crude morphine from the Middle East is smuggled into the tough, jaded Mediterranean port and converted to heroin. It is then sent to New York by clandestine carriers as diverse as diplomatic pouches and the Air France stewardess caught three years ago with the stuff in her bra. Balding little Louis Lavalette, chief of the police judiciare for Southern France, has long had a good hunch who was behind the operation: "Monsieur Jean" Cesari, a quick-witted courtly Corsican who, in 20 years...