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Asst. Atty. Gen. of Wyoming, at meeting in Caspar on sex offense laws, said such laws may need strengthening. Longer periods of confinement urged. Noted "peeping toms" not covered at present.

Veteran Pittsburgh cop, fired on drunk rap, held on morals charges concerning eight teenage boys. Police later went all-out, prodded by County Supt. Ketchel, to rid parks of sex deviates. Golf caddies, park workers ordered to report suspicious activities. Steward of a Northside Legion club arrested, charged with improper advances toward a 15year-old. Police denied arrest at first.

Pittsburgh mayor, in July, said problem less serious than formerly, but new law might help. "Society has fallen down on job, failing miserably to meet this problem. It certainly isn't being solved by tossing these people in jail." Suggested use of Behavior Clinic instead.

Magistrate Wm. Redmond said in many borderline cases his court lacked power to refer offenders to Behavior Clinic. Director of Parks and Park Police Chief both said complaints and arrests had fallen sharply in recent years.

MANS CONQUEST, 6-55, ran an anonymous "confession" by vice squadder (of Pittsburgh?) whose testimony smashed vice squad in his city. Told entrapment and frame-up techniques, and shakedowns in which certain lawyers, vice cops and others arranged to drop charges "for a price." Of course, one mustn't suspect police in other cities of such practices, must one?

Two Egyptian judges recently caught in love nest to which they lured women with cases pending, promising favorable judgments for special favors.

MIDNIGHT, (Canada's liveliest tabloid) new lurid weekly from Montreal, campaigning against hustlers who victimize homosexuals.

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After Johannesburg surgeons performed successful sex-change, hundreds all over South Africa appealed to doctors for such operations. Some are women with masculine traits developing; most physically normal men who believe they have male bodies by mistake. TV & SUCHLIKE

With CONFLICT, THIS IS PSYCHIATRY, etc. TV turns more to mental themes, often stripped of sexual content. Some psychiatrists fear sensational approach may do more harm than good. MEDIC plans one on homosexuality, previously banned by show's special censors (acting for LA County Med. Assn.)

Note Gore Vidal's TV success (NEWSWEEK 6-20) with adaptations, DEVIL'S THEATRE, TRIP TO A SMALL PLANET, etc. Says "You can say and do things in television that you never could on stage or screen. You just have to be ingenious."

Judith Anderson to do Hamlet (Bernhardt did.) "I think" Hamlet "is feminine in some aspects, but not effeminate. If he was a masculine brute he would not be as sensitive as he is."

NYC at Open Door Theatre: "LONELINESS IS MY SHADOW... a woman's off-beat love." Some reader should tell us more . . .

Roger Peyrefitte (SPECIAL FRIENDSHIPS) had latest book seized by Italian police after state prosecutor began criminal libel proceedings. Vatican Radio called KEYS OF ST. PETER "offal" refusing to honor it by Indexing.

Spokane TV station got request for date of CLIMAX program she'd seen about January, to determine date of "our blessed event which will be due sometime this fall."

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