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...went to the phone company's office and authorized the company to tap his phone and to take any necessary court action...
Early the following morning - from 12:53 to 2:17 a. m. - the phone company's tap picked up eight phone calls, none lasting longer than 20 seconds, and traced them to the defendant, who lives in a two-room single. The phone company consulted with the Harvard police on May 11 and then filed charges against the defendant in criminal court, which set June 8 as the hearing date...
...government has stated, in papers filed with the court, that it did place a tap on the phone of defendant Sister Elizabeth McAlister but denied having tapped any "relevant" conversations between any of the other defendants or their lawyers...
...unwilling to judge the case on hearsay evidence-if it demands to see the telephone company's transcript of the wire tap-the defendant may have to face a trial in the Cambridge courts...
Most observers continue to feel that reining in man's aggressiveness is as important as spurring his intelligence. Harvard Neurosurgeon Vernon Mark advocates a nongenetic approach. "There are basic brain mechanisms that will stop violent behavior, and we are born with them," Mark asserts. To tap those mechanisms, scientists would like to develop an anti-aggression pill (estrogens, or female hormones, have already been used experimentally to inhibit aggressive behavior). Until they do, Mark and two Harvard colleagues?Psychiatrist Frank Ervin and Surgeon William Sweet?are fighting aggression by using surgery to destroy the damaged brain cells that sometimes cause...