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Human Obstacle. These cheerful chapters are not entirely representative of Dr. Brown's book. Reason: he has no great confidence that man will be able to tap the resources that he has listed. The chief trouble is that the nonindustrial two-thirds of the human race is increasing so rapidly that it cannot become industrial. Geochemist Brown's worst example is India, where 90% of the people are concerned with growing or distributing food, but where nearly everyone is in danger of starvation. The situation gets worse every year, by 5,000,000 more Indians...
...campaign starts from two motives: some programs are designed merely to attract more teachers, and some are a part of a growing revolt against standard U.S. teacher training. But whatever the motivations, the programs have one major target: to tap for the teaching profession the vast reservoir of ordinary liberal arts graduates.* Last week, along with Chicago, Northwestern University was joining up. Next fall it will start a master of arts in teaching program which will combine advanced graduate work with the courses necessary to meet Illinois teacher requirements. Among other programs now flourishing across...
...Catch a Bookie. While Section 605 has sat lumpishly on the books, serving mainly to bar wiretap evidence in federal courts, wiretapping has flourished. Technology has kept up with demand. Today a good tap sets up so little interference in the line that users do not hear it. A tapper can rig up a tape recorder and leave the scene, returning only once a day to change the tape. Induction apparatus makes it possible to tap a wire without hooking into it or even touching...
...biggest wiretapping agencies in the U.S. are the FBI, which on an average day has between 150 and 200 taps working, and the New York City Police Department. A state law allows any New York cop above the rank of sergeant to apply for a court order to wiretap, even when investigating misdemeanors. Orders are easy to get. Now & then, the cops tap public phones, listen in on hundreds of conversations in the hope of picking up leads on bookies or prostitutes...
...other 47 states, 34 outlaw wiretapping altogether, two (Louisiana and Massachusetts) permit tapping by law officers, and the rest neither forbid tapping nor permit it. Where state bans exist, they do not prevent police tapping, which occurs in all big cities with large nests of organized crime. Private tapping, too, goes on in every big city. Most of it is done by professional tappers hired by more or less law-abiding citizens. Prices run high. New York City's four or five private tappers charge about $300 a week to put a tape recorder on a line and service...