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...only an indication of the size and shape of a criminal's shoes. Still, the Home Office, which encouraged Greenwood in his research, has hopes that the technique will prove useful to detectives. Electrostatic shoeprints, for instance, could give some hint of the size and sex of a culprit, reveal how many people were involved in a caper and even allow police to trace their movements...
...China's birth control campaign (researchers are widely testing a once-a-month contraceptive pill). China's second-in-command also raised a few editorial eyebrows by expressing his belief that Lee Harvey Oswald alone did not kill President Kennedy, mysteriously adding, "the [identity of the] principal culprit, the man who planned the assassination," has never been divulged...
...most poignant statement came in absentia from Peter Bridge, 36, who worked for the recently deceased Newark Evening News. Bridge went to jail last week for an indefinite period because he would not tell a local grand jury the identity of the culprit in a bribery story he had written. Ironically, New Jersey has an immunity statute, but it was narrowly interpreted in the Bridge case. "A person who is not a news reporter," said Bridge, "might wonder why it is so important to maintain the confidentiality of sources. I can testify that confidential sources are the single most important...
Blue Cross and Blue Shield officials countered the charge of poor management and inefficiency. They asserted that the culprit is the increased cost of fighting medical inflation and the greater benefits offered to their subscribers...
...real culprit behind Fuzz is Screenwriter Hunter. He should have known better. After all, he has written some good books under the name of Ed McBain...