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Narcotics addiction is both a physical and emotional illness, but doctors rarely get to treat it and can do virtually nothing to prevent it. In the U.S., prevention is left to law enforcement officers, and addicts go from court to jail. This is all wrong, says New York City's Chief Magistrate John M. Murtagh, 48, who from the bench has studied the sordid side of narcotics law 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...
Though prestigious organizations of law-abiding citizens-notably the New York Academy of Medicine-have urged adoption of the British system, Judge Murtagh has no hope that anything so revolutionary would be accepted in the U.S. In Who Live in Shadow, written with Sara Harris and published this week (McGraw-Hill; $4.50), Murtagh offers a compromise prescription: ¶ Set up facilities under federal auspices for treating narcotics addicts in all major cities...
...There are now only three hospitals for addicts in the U.S.: two federal, at Lexington, Ky., and Fort Worth, and one run by New York City for victims under 21. †Main reason most addicts turn to crime is that illicit drugs cost several hundred times the legal price, and the "habit" may set them back $500 a week...
Sculptors, by the nature of their bulky craft, are the most tied down of all artists. The exception seems to be Los Angeles-born Isamu Noguchi, 54, who travels at the drop of a toothbrush, is equally at home in New York, Paris and Tokyo, believes in using tools to finish the job and then, if necessary, abandoning them. Last week Noguchi came to rest long enough to put together, at Manhattan's Stable Gallery, his first major exhibition in eleven years-36 pieces ranging from iron forms forged in Japan to towering monoliths in the famous Pentelic marble...
Swedish granite originally designed for Manhattan's Lever House (the budget ran out) and a torchlike form in Greek marble, planned as a 30-ft, focal point for the International Arrivals building at Idlewild Airport (the New York Port Authority turned it down). Often, Noguchi complains, "architects want something that is timely. I want to get back to the real problem of sculpture and do something timeless...