Word: wolfing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Taming of the Wolf. Congress has never really made up its mind about wiretapping, and the public attitude toward the practice is shifting and ambivalent. Obviously, wiretapping is, as Justice Holmes said, a "dirty business." Law enforcement got along without it for many centuries, and legalized wiretapping seems to many to be another gratuitous encroachment on the private lives of individuals...
Further, the modern tendency toward elaborate organization, which works for everyone, does not discriminate against criminals. In earlier times, society usually had the criminal at a heavy disadvantage; he was likely to be a lone wolf or a member of a loosely knit mob with small resources, untrusting and untrustworthy, incapable of stable alliances with other criminals. The 20th century has seen an extraordinary shift to conspiratorial crime, which reached its first great flowering during Prohibition, e.g., the Capone gang. Some American gangs have maintained their continuity for a generation, enforcing discipline on their members and finding allies in respectable...
...most dangerous of such conspirators are recruited on an ideological basis. The gangster is a lone wolf who has been domesticated by his boss; a rebel against society and morality, he is likely to break into rebellion against his overlord or to crack up under pressure of police questioning. But the American who becomes a Communist spy is not especially likely to have an unstable personality. Indeed, some of them have been able to produce impressive testimony that they seemed to fit very well into the way of life that they were secretly committed to destroy. Among conspirators of this...
Telephone Hour (Mon. 9 p.m., NBC). Fred Allen narrates Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf...
...Testing a new drug by comparing its effects with those of sugar pills may give confusing results. Dr. Stewart Wolf, reporting on experiments at Manhattan's New York Hospital, told how batches of a new drug and sugar pills were bottled and labeled with code numbers so that not even the doctors knew when a patient was getting which. Just as many patients felt lightheaded, drowsy or lost their appetite on sugar pills as on the drug. One suffered "overwhelming weakness, palpitation and nausea" within a few minutes of taking either. Another had pain, diarrhea, itching and swelling...