Word: detector
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...linked Gambler Clifford Bennett during a raid on Bennett's after-hours joint in 1955, and 2) perjury before the grand jury by denying he took the bribe. Testifying before the McClellan committee, Schrunk had also denied the bribery charge despite sworn testimony by eyewitnesses, demanded a lie-detector test, stalked out when the questions got too hot: e.g., Had he in fact ever been paid off by gamblers...
...Portland's Democratic Mayor Terry Schrunk, elected with Teamster help, had agreed to take a lie-detector test to help him refute testimony that he had, as sheriff of Multnomah County, taken a $500 bribe from a gambler. But when he went to take the test, Schrunk objected to six questions (e.g., "While sheriff, did you receive any payoffs from any gamblers?"), stalked out. Later he told the committee: "Apparently they were aimed at trying to make me flunk the test...
...last week's National Electronics Conference at Chicago, Schafer discussed recent improvements in scientific knowledge and control of the brain. After all, he pointed out, the brain is a digital computer whose functioning can be profoundly affected by electrical influences. The electroencephalograph (brainwave detector) shows electrical signals that ebb and flow in the brain. Perhaps these signals can be simulated, controlling the brain's sensations and thoughts...
...executive duties and-after Tacho died-the blue-and-white sash of office. West Point-educated Anastasio Jr. ("Tachito"), 32, commander of the 4,100-man Guardia National, jailed something like 3,000 suspected enemies of the regime, personally tested many of them with a newly imported lie detector,*soon freed all but 300. He unearthed no plot-but the arrests doubtless discouraged any enemy attempt to cash in fast on the assassination...
...psychology lab a student volunteer washed down the magnet with water, then lay down on a bed, fully dressed and in no discomfort. Beneath the bed was a magnetometer detector (a small rectangular box). Wires from the detector led to the control room, where members of the research team watched the magnet's movements recorded by an automatic...