Word: decoying
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...sight of husky New York cops ' dressed up as women to decoy nighttime muggers gave Manhattan newspaper feature writers their biggest outing in transvestite humor since Charley's Aunt. But the program, said New York's finest, has paid off with "remarkable success" (see THE NATION). Police Commissioner Michael Murphy was the first to give credit where credit is due: he was merely expanding on an idea tried out in St. Louis that the commissioner read about in TIME just last week...
...policeman!" cried the victim. "Drop that club!" The mugger stared for a moment in astonishment, then turned and ran. The cop, Otto Hirsch, fired once into the air, shot again and nicked him in the side. In a few moments, Hirsch and fellow members of St. Louis' crack decoy squad had rounded up the mugger and three cronies...
Louis go far beyond the decoy squad system and crime prediction. When he first served on the police board from 1946 to 1949, he reorganized record keeping with an eventual saving to the city of $100,000 a year in clerical salaries. Today every telephone call to police headquarters is tape-recorded, every crime is punched onto cards and classified by date, time and location...
Alas, once a straw man always a straw man. The onetime scarecrow of The Wizard of Oz meets an advertising mogul played by Fritz Weaver with Mephistophelean glee. Stan, as the love-smitten dean of women (Eileen Herlie) calls him, becomes a be-spatted decoy for the "Fodorski Foundation." At sea in adland. poor rich Stan is eventually faced with a moral question: Should he throw the big game to save his academic integrity...
...Nike Zeus still has a long way to go, and the Defense Department is withholding $125 million appropriated for Nike Zeus production until the Army solves some major problems. For one, its radar so far cannot distinguish between a real warhead and a decoy. For another, while it is efficient on a single target, the Zeus cannot make a choice when a "package," or barrage of missiles appears. Finally, last week's Nike Hercules target missile was tracking at only 3,000 m.p.h. In a test scheduled for the Pacific next summer, the Nike Zeus will attempt to down...