Word: detective
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Beranek and Newman works on antisubmarine warfare devices. Its basic research on acoustics is useful in developing acoustic and seismic sensors used in Indochina. Parachuted from planes, the acoustic sensors become caught in trees where they pick up "enemy" conversations. Seismic sensors--disguised as tropical plants and animal droppings--detect ground vibrations caused by human movement. The information from both types of sensors is relayed to the central computer in Thailand, where it is used to determine bombing targets. (Although "people sniffers" can now distinguish between Americans and Vietnamese--meat-eating Americans have different chemicals in their perspiration--no sensors...
...scientific activities have been added. The lunar module will carry on its side special plates designed to detect cosmic rays. Young and Duke will operate a newly designed $2,000,000 electronic camera that can "photograph" ultraviolet radiation from distant stars, galaxies and giant intergalactic gas clouds, as well as the ultraviolet glow round the earth. In addition, the astronauts will set up four remote-controlled grenades that will be fired later by signals from earth and send sound waves through the moon's interior to help determine its structure...
...lobbies on Capitol Hill and in other parts of the federal bureaucracy. In New York City and other major urban areas, women's health clinics offer counseling, referral and care free of charge or at nominal fees. Self-help medical techniques, including pelvic examinations and Pap smears to detect uterine cancer, are being devised; male chauvinism, feminists argue, is most humiliating when encountered in an unsympathetic or uncaring doctor...
...Sir/Could it be that I detect a bit of venom in your choice of Clifford Irving as "Con Man of the Year"? Come on boys, be good sports. Put yourselves on next week's cover under the title-you guessed it-"Suckers of the Year...
...Gonorrhea now rates as America's most urgent public health problem, and officials have urged routine screening to detect the hundreds of thousands of new cases each year. But detection is often difficult, especially in women. Gonococci, the germs of gonorrhea, flourish and multiply astronomically in human genitalia, but are difficult to preserve for laboratory test cultures. The organisms are sensitive to air and often die by the time a specimen reaches a lab technician. Now Smith Kline and French Laboratories have devised a simple, self-contained test that physicians can perform in their own offices. The doctor takes...