Word: detectors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chicago, James Rochford was named the new police superintendent after the convictions of 48 cops in the past three years and the firing or forced resignations of 407 members of the force. Two weeks ago, after 72 top officers took lie detector tests, Rochford gave the force its biggest command shakeup ever; 60 of the highest-ranking men were moved up, down or around...
Stephen S.J. Hall, vice president for administration, said yesterday that the signal came when the fire melted wires in the Lowell House fire bell system, causing a short circuit. Two minutes later a heat detector was triggered, Hall said, alerting police and fire departments to the blaze...
...said it was the "strangest kind of even that could happen" for a fire to begin in a closet, disabling the bell system before triggering a heat detector...
...prim gown of laboratory respectability. In it are researchers like Cleve Backster, a lie-detector expert who attached the terminals of his machines to plants. Behold! The vegetation reacted to his thoughts...
...addition, Rochford disclosed results of lie-detector tests that he had ordered 72 top officers to take in order to determine if any had participated in or condoned acts of corruption. Seven men failed all four questions, and nine failed one or more. Rochford demanded and is getting the resignations of all 72 officers. He will now determine who should be reinstated, demoted or fired...