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...Congress of the International Association of Applied Psychology that some of the techniques they use to probe the mind are "open to reservations," however praiseworthy the ends. Some secrets, he said, "can absolutely not be unveiled, even to one prudent person." The Pope also condemned the use of lie detectors. Explained a Vatican official: "The lie detector is always illicit, even with the consent of the subject. Just as a man may not consent to euthanasia because religious law forbids him from doing away with himself, so he may not destroy his own freedom to answer or not according...
...free Sputnik detector, Dr. Kraus, 47, uses the 20-megacycle radio time signal sent out 24 hours a day by the National Bureau of Standards' station WWV near Washington, D.C. In daytime the signal reflects strongly from the ionosphere, but at night the ionosphere is less effective, so the signal gets much weaker. When a small meteor streaks across the sky, it leaves behind it a trail of ionized air that acts as a small reflector. The ionized air increases the strength of the Washington time signals for a couple of seconds...
Gein's explanation of the Worden murder and mutilation: "I was sort of in a daze-like." Under questioning, with the aid of the state crime laboratory's lie detector, he admitted one other murder: the shooting of Mary Hogan, 54, a divorcee tavern keeper who had disappeared from nearby Bancroft three years before. Her face mask could not at first be identified among the remains. All the rest, Gein insisted, he had got by opening fresh graves in nearby cemeteries (he watched the obituaries for prospects). Usually he took only the head and some other parts of the body...
...Nucleonics Corp. of Columbus, Ohio, one of the top sellers of isotope measuring equipment (1956 sales: $5,000,000), developed a foolproof method. As the tire cord goes through the rubberizing machine, it passes between a capsule of strontium 90 and a radiation counter. If the thickness varies, the detector's reading changes, automatically sets off machinery to adjust the rubber flow. Today all the major rubber companies use these "AccuRay" gauges at a saving of $20 million annually. With similar apparatus rolling mills can control the thickness of steel, and the manufacturers of aluminum, paper, plastics, glass, cigarettes...
...unfolded like a mystery story, beginning with the girl's arrival at a hospital psychiatric ward, developing as the staff ferreted out the causes of her malady, reaching a high pitch of suspense with an attempt to make her hear again through the ingenious use of a lie detector and the shock of an emotional confrontation. Under Sidney (Twelve Angry Men) Lumet's direction, the play combined compassion and extraordinary visual impact in scenes in which the mute father and mother flung their feelings into sign language-taught to the actors by a specialist-and the brother (well...