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...Most likely spot: the Kontum-Pleiku region in the western highlands, where the Ho Chi Minh trail feeds men and supplies from Laos into South Viet Nam. The Communists have been notably quiet there since the bloody battles in the la Drang valley last month. Intelligence experts say they detect signs that the North Vietnamese regulars are busily regrouping, perhaps preparing for an unprecedented division-sized assault...
With the rise of the 35-hour week and four-week vacations, millionaires also detect tempting prospects in recreation. Among them: marinas and vacation homes. The growth of leisure and the youth market will also strengthen businesses involved with education, including secretarial schools and accounting schools. Oakland Lawyer Michael Rafton tapped that market: In 1960 he put up $31,000 to buy a struggling company that had been making big cargo boxes, switched it into the manufacture of portable classrooms, and last year sold out at a huge profit. The demand for time-saving conveniences can be turned into wealth...
Because the stakes are so enormous, the North Sea hunt has become a no-holds-barred game. Industrial spies now fill the sea and air off the British coast, in chugging trawlers and hovering helicopters, seeking to detect strikes before they are announced. The work pays well. Gas fever has become so hot that competing oil companies and stock speculators reward the spies for information with checks as large...
...FORENSIC TOXICOLOGY, says Thorwald, is the most troubled of the detective disciplines. The principal problem: chemists have developed new poisons more rapidly than toxicologists have developed methods of detecting them. At the beginning of the 19th century, the big bugaboo was arsenous oxide (also known as "inheritance powder"), a poison that caused symptoms indistinguishable from those of cholera. In 1832, a simple method was developed to detect the arsenic in a cadaver. But by then the chemists had discovered the vegetable alkaloids-morphine, strychnine, cocaine, nicotine, quinine and so on. These poisons seemed to dissolve without a trace...
...person who dies suddenly, it was discovered, coagulates rapidly, but then, for no known reason reliquefies. The pathology of rape was explored-semen, somebody noted, emits a pale blue glow under ultraviolet light. And some brilliant solutions were provided for a major medico-legal problem: How to detect murder disguised as suicide...