Word: detective
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cowards Don't Go to Jail." When most wardens detect prison recruiting, they clap the hard-core Muslims into solitary or transfer them to other prisons. "There was a time when they tended to congregate in the yard," says Warden George Goodman of the New Jersey State Prison in Trenton, "but we quickly stopped that. We may have nipped a potentially serious problem in the bud, but I cannot be sure." Oftentimes, recruiting goes right on even when the Muslim leaders are segregated. An office worker at Breathedsville was recently exposed as a Muslim. He had managed...
...straight 700's on her Scholastic Aptitude and English Achievement Tests she ranks in the top tenth of her high school or prep school class; principal and teachers alike detect 'no' flaw in her brains, character, and personality; her interviewer finds her alert and eager, chock-full of intellectual curiosity. By objective standards, she will profit immensely from and contribute greatly to any college in the country. But will she get into Radcliffe? Not necessarily, for an average of 1,000 equally well qualified girls have applied for the last three years--and Radcliffe has space for only...
...American youngsters plays an instrument, report Maler & Co., as compared to one in every 16 German youngsters. The reason? Most American schools provide two hours of music instruction weekly through the first six grades. Part of the trouble in Germany, say the educators, is that schools do not detect talent early enough...
...compromise: too much separation results in an alteration of the original sound. Moreover, in pseudo stereo "you can spread the sound around the room, but there is no way to get the feeling, as in true stereo, of the proper positioning of the individual instruments." Sharp-eared listeners will detect that the Somerized orchestra has a habit of wandering about the stage: the strings may shift a bit toward center, a trumpeter may wander farther into right field. But most customers are not likely to question the illusion: the gimmicked Toscanini recordings have a luster that their mono counterparts lack...
...developed a collision-avoidance system that bounces signals both off neighboring aircraft and off the ground to determine an approaching aircraft's course, tells the pilot what evasive action to take. The Sperry Rand Corp. is developing a system that uses high-frequency radio-wave techniques to detect the proximity of another aircraft; Motorola, Inc. is working on an infra-red detection device that picks up the red running lights on other planes, warns the pilot of their nearness...