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...last week's National Electronics Conference at Chicago, Schafer discussed recent improvements in scientific knowledge and control of the brain. After all, he pointed out, the brain is a digital computer whose functioning can be profoundly affected by electrical influences. The electroencephalograph (brainwave detector) shows electrical signals that ebb and flow in the brain. Perhaps these signals can be simulated, controlling the brain's sensations and thoughts...
...executive duties and-after Tacho died-the blue-and-white sash of office. West Point-educated Anastasio Jr. ("Tachito"), 32, commander of the 4,100-man Guardia National, jailed something like 3,000 suspected enemies of the regime, personally tested many of them with a newly imported lie detector,*soon freed all but 300. He unearthed no plot-but the arrests doubtless discouraged any enemy attempt to cash in fast on the assassination...
...psychology lab a student volunteer washed down the magnet with water, then lay down on a bed, fully dressed and in no discomfort. Beneath the bed was a magnetometer detector (a small rectangular box). Wires from the detector led to the control room, where members of the research team watched the magnet's movements recorded by an automatic...
Analysis of the Id. In St. Joseph, Mo., Prisoner Lester Penney asked Jailer Pete Murphy to give him a lie-detector test, explained that he had been drinking for 25 years and "I think I want to stop; my idea is to take the test to see if I'm lying to myself...
Steel Inspector. To find microscopic holes in strip steel before it is made into tin cans, General Electric Co. has developed a gadget that shines a powerful light on the strip to make pinholes show up. The detector can find holes less than the diameter of a human hair while the strip runs by at 2,000 ft. a minute...