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...enforcement and its failures for ten years. For addicts he urges medical treatment, both physical and psychiatric, as well as help in rehabilitating themselves, and long-term doctors' care. Only thus, he argues, can the illicit traffic in marijuana and narcotics, estimated at $400 million a year in underworld profits, be wiped...
...Barry, by Stanley Loomis. A biography of the girl who learned the social and sinful graces in the Paris underworld, became the last mistress of Louis...
Pete Kelly's Blues (NBC, 8:30-9 p.m.). The music, in this series about a cornet player forever running head on into underworld bricks, is authentically blue, but the story line is too often merely mauve...
Binoculars & a Bus. These quotes, startling from an executive of Chicago's tight-lipped underworld, made lively front-page reading in the Chicago Tribune last week. They could have been reaped only by the Trib's Sandy Smith, who knows the mob's pecking order better than most hoods, and far better than any other police reporter in town...
...cases, appeals courts have upheld the Justice Department, giving it confidence that it is on solid legal ground. But the earlier cases were only the preliminaries to the real match, which is now opening. This is the fight to break down trade restraints in which underworld characters have muscled in on legitimate unions and business...