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...19th century, a British colonial administrator in India, Sir William Herschel, stumbled onto the technique of fingerprinting, which has since become an indispensable aid to police in hunting down criminals. Now a young Swedish professor at the University of Göteborg contends that fingerprinting offers a promising tool for his own particular pursuit: archaeology...
Hail to the Bakers. Herschel and Bobbi...
...Herschel Bernardi is another talent entombed in a seemingly moribund CBS property. Arnie, as his series is titled, has a possibly workable premise: a lifelong blue-collar worker is suddenly hoisted from the loading dock to an executive desk. But what laughs there were in the first episode belonged to the firm's fatuous, polo-playing president (Roger Bowen), whose main professional interest seems to be avoiding handclasps lest he endanger his mallet hand. Arnie is around obviously to provide hardhat wisdom and wit, but the premiere script suggests that Eric Hoffer...
...British astronomer Sir William Herschel performed a curious little experiment some 170 years ago. After bending a beam of sunlight through a prism, he found that a thermometer heated up most if it was placed just beyond the red end of the spectrum. Herschel concluded that the mysterious heat source was invisible rays from the sun, but he could hardly have known that infra-red radiation-as it was called -would eventually let man see the world in an entirely new light...
...Herschel Elkins, a California deputy attorney general, sees a spectrum of frustration in the numerous consumer protests that he receives about auto repairs, car-sales practices and warranties. From the 27,000 protests about faulty auto repair that came in last year, Elkins picks out the case of a Mexican-American laborer who bought an old car for $100. In the next 60 days he was victimized by garagemen who were as efficient at stripping him of money as they were inefficient at fixing his car. The laborer was almost inexcusably naive. He spent $750 for repairs and parts, including...