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Died. John Augustus Larson, 72, Canadian-born psychiatrist who, while doing research with the Berkeley, Calif., police force in 1921, correlated medical devices measuring skin temperature, blood pressure and breathing rate to develop the first lie detector; of a heart attack; in Nashville, Tenn...
Finally one of the co-detectors of man-made neutrinos, Dr. Frederick Reines of Cleveland's Case Institute of Technology, came up with a successful method. Near Johannesburg, he went to work in a 10,492-ft.-deep chamber, which he knew would shield out nearly all radiation from the surface except the deep-penetrating neutrinos. He lined the sides of the chamber with 36 containers of common mineral oil. Then he waited for an expected reaction of several stages: 1) the neutrinos hit atomic nuclei in the rock surrounding the chamber; 2) this interaction generated particles called...
...lengthy analyses of legislation before Congress and think pieces on such top ics as automation and narcotics. They are almost all unabashedly Democratic in their politics, and they tend to embark simultaneously on the same liberal campaigns: to abolish right-to-work laws, for instance, or to ban lie-detector tests from employment procedure. But the labor press no longer paints issues entirely in black and white, says Gordon Cole, editor of the Machinist (circ. 868,000) who once worked for the Wall Street Journal. "Now they present a lot more grey. In fact, people don't believe...
...radiation detector station in Turkey, where giant radar scanners monitor nuclear-bomb activities inside the Soviet Union by rotating full circle every 90 seconds, a computer began to chatter every time the dish passed an azimuth heading of 270°. This area, almost completely opposite in direction from Russia, showed up on maps as the desolate valley of the River Jordan in Palestine. At length, when the scanner was again approaching this heading, the puzzled controllers pushed the computer's "speak" button. Reels whirled, relays clicked, and the message came pounding out: NO, NEGATIVE, THERE IS NO BOMB...
...workers are sometimes trapped by counterspy-workers sent into plants by such protective agencies as Willmark or the Merit Protective Service. Companies on the defensive are also using closed-circuit television, two-way mirrors, lie-detector tests, and telephone taps of their own. But the very best preventive, businessmen decided at the A.M.A. meeting, is none of these things: it is for companies to keep their employees so content that they will not stoop to snoop for others, and will not be tempted to take their secrets to another company...