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What made the publishers even more wary was that they recognized the peddler. He was Victor Louis, a Soviet citizen who is married to a British wom an, works as a part-time correspondent in Moscow for the London Evening News, lives auspiciously well, and sometimes does unofficial chores for the Kremlin. Eventually, Louis was forced to turn to a publisher whose reputation is as offbeat as his own: Alex Flegon, a Rumanian refugee who operates a small press in London and specializes in smuggling dubious literary material in and out of the Soviet Union...
...whom some of you have read. He shows that in any given area, the markets occur on a pattern. The first, third, fifth and seven day in a 10-day cycle, or the second, fourth, eighth day in a 10-day cycle. The point being that the itinerant peddler can go from one market to the next, in a sequence, to be in this town the first day, in this town the second day, and this town the third day. If you start working that out, you realize you have got marketing areas. These are units and Bill and other...
Nevertheless, many people were wondering if the Peoria proceedings were dragging more slowly than was really necessary. In the heavily publicized fraud trial of Influence Peddler Bobby Baker in January, it took only one day to impanel a jury. Federal Judge Oliver Gasch said, "I see no reason why jury selection should be the slowest process in the American system of justice." The process is much swifter in federal courts, because judges-not attorneys-usually question prospective jurors. But even without the built-in difficulties of digging up unprejudiced jurors for Speck, the Peoria selection was destined by Illinois state...
Robert Thomas Hannah, 31, was a petty hoodlum and narcotics peddler who helped Illinois authorities trap a big-time dope pusher. Last week, his frozen body, containing six bullets, was found in the snow at the edge of a forest preserve outside Chicago. He thereby achieved a dubious fame: his murder marked the 1,000th gangster killing since the Chicago Crime Commission began keeping count in 1919. Only 13 have ended in convictions...
...judicially approved search and seizure. Warren agreed: "I see nothing wrong with the Government thus verifying the truthfulness of the informer and protecting his credibility." Moreover, Warren himself wrote the majority opinion in a third case approving the tactics of a U.S. narcotics agent, who phoned Boston Marijuana Peddler Duke Lee Lewis at home, called himself "Jimmy the Polack" and arranged for Lewis to sell him eleven "bags" (71.5 grams) for $100. Although the Fourth Amendment shields a man's home, said Warren, a disguised agent is fully entitled to pierce the shield without a warrant when the home...