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Under favorable conditions, the thermistor can detect a change in temperature on the moon of less than one degree Fahrenheit. The Infrared Laboratory has invented and built another detector, called a ferroelectric bolometer, which promises to be even more sensitive. It should be able, for example, to detect the heat given off by a human hand flashing across it from across the room...
...UNDERGO LIE-DETECTOR EXAMINATION...
...N.F.L. Commissioner Pete Rozelle pointed out that all player contracts specifically forbid betting on league games. Facing a possible suspension, Karras sobbed that it was all a dreadful mistake. "I've never bet more than a pack of cigarettes or a couple of cigars," he said. A lie-detector test? Sure. "If I lied, the way I'm built, the lie-detector machine would explode...
...with rubles but also with French francs and U.S. dollars. In his home were three ounces of pearls, 2,700 antelope horns, which the Chinese prize for their supposed medicinal qualities, and 22 Ibs. of gold, which he planned to export to accomplices in Communist China. Using a mine detector, cops found another cache of gold buried in the gutter in front of the smuggler's house...
Alien Planet. The probe was already close to Venus when it opened its instrument eyes: an infra-red and a microwave detector. Both of them worked perfectly. Instantly Mariner's radio came alive and began relaying the secrets of Venus to earth, where they were typed in code. In Washington a spokesman for the -Aeronautics and Space Administration announced jubilantly: "We are currently scanning and gathering data from the planet." Then the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at Pasadena, which built Manner II, relayed its actual voice-an eerie, organ-like music. It would take several weeks to turn the signals...