Word: detector
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Analysis of the Id. In St. Joseph, Mo., Prisoner Lester Penney asked Jailer Pete Murphy to give him a lie-detector test, explained that he had been drinking for 25 years and "I think I want to stop; my idea is to take the test to see if I'm lying to myself...
Steel Inspector. To find microscopic holes in strip steel before it is made into tin cans, General Electric Co. has developed a gadget that shines a powerful light on the strip to make pinholes show up. The detector can find holes less than the diameter of a human hair while the strip runs by at 2,000 ft. a minute...
Incident in Mandalay. Last week in Burma, Serov's nerves seemed to be getting the better of him. London Observer Correspondent Philip Deane photographed a Burmese soldier demonstrating a mine detector at Mandalay airport, just before the arrival of Khrushchev and Bulganin. A 6-ft. MVD plainclothesman rushed the Burmese soldier to try to stop the picture. The incident, recorded on TV film, made Serov blaze with anger. "Who took that lying photograph?" he demanded later. When other Western newsmen refused to tell him, he got madder. "In Russia," he said, "a man who took that picture would...
...University of California; by his own hand after he told his housekeeper: "I'm going to shoot myself; call the Berkeley police"; in Berkeley, Calif. As Berkeley police chief (1905-32), Vollmer perfected fingerprinting, handwriting analysis and traffic-control techniques, used the new lie detector, was first to put all the cops on the force into cars (earlier he had put them on bicycles), later reorganized the police departments of Los Angeles, Detroit, Havana...
...kangaroo. He testified that he had recently invented "an entertaining, nondestructive toy," but he refused, claiming the immunity granted by the Fifth Amendment, to name the manufacturer for fear of hurting the toy's sales. Curious, Senator Herman Welker persisted: What was the toy? A miniature lie detector? "Well," said Matusow coyly, as the hearing-room crowd roared, "I call it a stringless...