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...television-detector van began prowling London's streets last week. It was beginning a search for 150,000 TV sets whose owners have not paid their annual license fee of ?2 ($5.60) to the General Post Office. Since the van can detect a set only when it is turned on-and if it happens to be within a 100-ft. radius of the truck-illicit televiewers had little reason to tremble in their boots...
Last summer's expedition, financed by the National Geographic Society, carried in a planeload of equipment and set out to find the evidence. Attempts to find fragments of nickel-iron from the meteorite were unsuccessful. The expedition's mine detectors (lent by the U.S. Army) were scarcely more useful: they gave too many indications, squealed excitedly whenever they were brought near an ordinary granite boulder. Apparently, said Geologist Meen, the granite of the region contains enough magnetic iron ore to drive a mine detector wild...
Since Guy Coolen, ex-husband of the murdered Shirley Coolen, has been exonerated of the crime by a lie detector test, the police have only one suspect left...
Some industries use X rays to look for flaws in their products, but the apparatus is expensive, cumbersome. This week G E announced a new X-ray detector that enables simple equipment to do many inspecting jobs...
...warn her of radiation, Mrs. MacDonald has a portable Geiger counter linked to a detector tube in the garden. When the counter sets off an alarm bell, Mrs. MacDonald will go to her shelter, taking the counter with her to connect up inside so that she will know when the area is clear of radiation and she can safely...