Word: detectors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...School, in the shadow of the Bunker Hill Monument. Armed with a high-powered rifle, a police sharpshooter carefully watched a sullen crowd of whites as three yellow buses unloaded 66 black boys and girls. They showed their student identification cards to school officials, passed through an electronic metal detector that checked for weapons, and walked into the gray stone building. Later that day, a band of 100 white youths rampaged down Monument Street, overturning three Volkswagens, and other angry whites beat up a black student at near by Bunker Hill College. Thus, in scenes that have become a fall...
...three days that the cosmic-ray detector hung 130,000 ft. over Sioux City, Iowa, it marked the passage of 75 heavy atomic particles hurtling in from outer space. One of the particles was distinctly different from the others. Its telltale track through a sandwich of three dozen sheets of plastic, nuclear emulsion and photographic film looked unfamiliar to cosmic-ray researchers. Last week, nearly two years after their equipment was brought back to earth, scientists from the universities of California and Houston finally offered an explanation. The unexpected particle, they said, was almost surely a magnetic monopole, the long...
Last week the A.M.A. moved on its own to plug the leak. It hired a private security firm and gave lie detector tests to at least four employees. But even as the polygraph tests were being administered, Sore Throat was passing along to TIME copies of memoranda showing how the A.M.A.'s Washington lobbyists requested funds for politicians from AMPAC, the organization's political action committee. He also explained how the money made its way circuitously from Chicago to the coffers of those Congressmen whose favor the A.M.A., which cannot legally make direct political contributions, is interested...
...stockbroker, Morton Leventhal, 38, uses the telephone to track down clients and commissions. When he is on vacation, he turns to an electronic metal detector and searches for another kind of treasure: ancient coins and other artifacts. Last month, as he neared the end of a visit with his married sister at the kibbutz Tirat Tzvi, south of the Sea of Galilee in Israel, the amateur archaeologist and numismatist had little to show for his efforts. With the help of his $160 metal detector, he had uncovered many sardine cans, bottle caps and shell casings, but no coins...
Then an acquaintance suggested that Leventhal try a nearby field that was lying fallow. After bicycling to the site, Leventhal began to sweep the area with his detector. Soon the beep-beep in his earphones changed to a wail. Leventhal unsheathed his 8-in. scout knife, dug through the dry soil and unearthed a peculiarly shaped cylinder that he thought was just "another sewer pipe." Then the detector sounded off for another hit. More knife digging, and Leventhal was suddenly staring at what seemed to be curls on the back of a bronze head. He dug out the head, wrapped...