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...salesman, but the investigation continued. The husband, Lester Harp, was brought to the district attorney's office for further questioning, and eventually the three Harp boys were also brought in. To clear up some points, Assistant District Attorney Loys Criswell asked if the three would mind taking a lie-detector test. Before they answered, their father took them aside for a family consultation and returned with some surprising news: "Bruce wants to tell you something...
...Merle Lansden reluctantly barred the boy's confession and found him not guilty. "Before a confession is to be accepted when a person is in custody or his freedom of action is limited in any significant manner, he must be warned," said the judge. Mention of "the words lie detector" indicated "that the finger of suspicion was moving toward Bruce...
...think it the greatest subject for laughs since mothers-in-law, and while the British public soak in the propaganda about it being "for the good of our society"-surely people can see that the Breathalyser test [Oct. 20] is no different than being forced to take a lie detector test for a suspected crime, and making the results admissible evidence in court. So much for democracy...
Anti-Bugging. Westin also warns about the polygraph (lie detector) and personality tests that are sometimes required for employment. Worse still, he feels, could be the impact of computers. Already Americans leave a detailed trail of vital data about themselves-insurance questionnaires, loan applications, census forms, employment applications, tax returns, military and school records. If all of these are gathered into one Orwellian information bank, as some officials have proposed, a man's life may well be available at the punch of a button. When all financial transactions begin to be carried out by a universal credit-card...
...grown proportionately with increasing aircraft speeds. Clawing without warning at fast-flying jets, CAT wreaks death and injury and causes millions of dollars of damage annually to commercial and military aircraft. But CAT may soon be stripped of its coat of invisibility. Preliminary tests of a new infra-red detector indicate that areas of turbulence can be spotted as far away as 48 miles, giving jet pilots as long as four minutes to take evasive action...