Word: detectably
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...incentive pay to raise patrol-force status and keep good men in prowl cars. He wastes no time blaming the Supreme Court for "handcuffing" policemen. He is much harder on scientists and technicians for ignoring urgent police equipment needs: tiny radios, night glasses, lightweight armor, heat sensors to detect hidden fugitives, metal sensors for frisking suspects. He also wants someone to develop a gadget to stop a fleeing car's engine and a computerized "instant lawyer" to help police field interrogators avoid unlawful procedures...
...invincible "high ground" from which to launch an attack on an earthly enemy, now seems beyond consideration as a rocket base. Any lunar-launched missile would take far longer (16 hours) to reach its target than its earth-based counterpart. It would be harder to guide, easier to detect, and simpler to destroy. Which is one big reason behind Russia's willingness to sign an outer-space treaty, renouncing territorial rights or bases on the moon...
Calling a Bluff. From evidence of excessive wear on the ball bearings of Chinese trains coming into Hong Kong, combined with several other signs of unusual activity, U.S. watchers in 1962 were able to detect large-scale troop movements, reflecting Peking's fears of a Nationalist invasion. The U.S., through its ambassador in Warsaw, was able to assure the Communists that it would not support any such move by Taiwan, thus forestalled a potentially explosive confrontation...
...vineyard cannot match the Californians' 463,000 acres, their sales are growing faster. While California's share of the U.S. wine market has ebbed from 88% to 76% since 1950, New York's has grown from 7% to 12%. In these figures, some wine experts detect a subtle taste shift from the inexpensive, sweet dessert wines of California to the drier and more dear (by as much as 50%) varieties produced in the harsher climates of upstate New York. In New York's wine-making Finger Lakes area, output of dry table wines is growing...
Antique counterfeiters also build cupboards from the broad boards in the attics of old houses. To detect these, buyers should check the board ends to see whether they were sawed off with an electrical circular saw, which leaves curved lines, and look for nail holes plugged with plastic wood in places where a cupboard needs no nail at all. Then, says Grotz, there are the "cute little Early American pine three-drawer chests that are only as high as a Victorian commode." They are just that, with the lower doors removed and two drawers fitted into the space where...