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...body. His inquisitor kept coming back to the same insinuating questions about whether he had been stealing or was heavily in debt; every time he answered no, he imagined to his horror that the lines were jumping wildly. Fortunately, they were not. The young man eventually passed his lie-detector test -and thus qualified for a job as a store manager for a hamburger chain...
...Apollo 17, four wholly new instruments have been included in the ALSEP package: a mass spectrometer to measure the moon's tenuous atmosphere; a detector that will let earthbound scientists monitor the bombardment of cosmic dust particles and micrometeorites on the moon's surface; an array of four listening devices-geo-phones-that can pick up shock waves from explosive charges that will be detonated after the astronauts leave and should tell much about the substructure of the landing site; an extremely sensitive gravimeter that is designed to pick up minuscule variations in lunar surface gravity...
...years ago, University of Maryland Physicist Joseph Weber astonished his colleagues with the announcement that he had detected gravity waves. Predicted by Einstein's 1916 general theory of relativity, such waves are the vehicles presumed to transmit gravitational energy across space. Critics have contended that Weber's detectors probably sensed some of the earth's own rumblings. But if sudden variations in gravity are now simultaneously picked up by a detector on the moon and a comparable device on earth, the skeptics may well be silenced...
Middle America is supposed to love its police; in Chicago the affair is on the rocks. Determined to persuade the city to put a second man in all patrolling squad cars and to eliminate lie detector tests for recruits, Chicago's finest started a "job action"; they festooned almost anything that moved with tickets. Even Mayor Richard Daley was outraged. When Alderman Vito Marzullo discovered a ticket on his Cadillac, he was driven to philosophical speculation: "Are they performing their duties now, or have they neglected their duties in the past...
...appeared to be personal correspondence between its former chairman, Lawrence O'Brien, and other top Democratic leaders. In several of the photographs, the documents were being held for the camera by hands in ill-fitting surgical gloves. If Richardson's testimony is true (he passed a lie detector test with "flying colors"), it proves that the Democratic headquarters had been "bagged" (burglarized for the purpose of photographing documents) before the June 17 arrests...