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...Columbus, Ohio, where he is serving a life sentence for bludgeoning his wife to death three years ago, 35-year-old Dr. Sam Sheppard was told that a 23-year-old convict and drug addict named Donald Wedler had confessed to the crime in Florida, and that a lie detector test indicated he was telling the truth. Unemotional at the news-24 other persons have signed similar "confessions"-Dr. Sam nevertheless agreed for the first time since the slaying to take a lie detector test himself. Shown a picture of Wedler, he said he had a "vague feeling" that Wedler...
Then Dr. Sinton hitched a supersensitive infra-red detector to Harvard's 61-in. telescope and looked for the same absorption band in sunlight reflected from Mars. Many observations were necessary because of the feebleness of Martian light, but at last the band appeared. Apparently, something on Mars absorbs infra-red in the same way that earthside vegetation does. Dr. Sinton thinks his observation is strong evidence that Mars has living organisms whose bodies are made of compounds containing carbon and hydrogen...
...more she struggled the more blood she lost. The ground around her turned red. She never stopped screaming, though her screams grew weaker, and she continued to beg for help. At last a file of Hungarian soldiers came out of the woods. The lead man carried a mine detector. The soldiers fired a few shots to scare away the Austrians. Then, applying a tourniquet to the girl's leg, they put her on a stretcher and carried her back into Kadar's Hungary...
...linked Gambler Clifford Bennett during a raid on Bennett's after-hours joint in 1955, and 2) perjury before the grand jury by denying he took the bribe. Testifying before the McClellan committee, Schrunk had also denied the bribery charge despite sworn testimony by eyewitnesses, demanded a lie-detector test, stalked out when the questions got too hot: e.g., Had he in fact ever been paid off by gamblers...
...Portland's Democratic Mayor Terry Schrunk, elected with Teamster help, had agreed to take a lie-detector test to help him refute testimony that he had, as sheriff of Multnomah County, taken a $500 bribe from a gambler. But when he went to take the test, Schrunk objected to six questions (e.g., "While sheriff, did you receive any payoffs from any gamblers?"), stalked out. Later he told the committee: "Apparently they were aimed at trying to make me flunk the test...