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...Atom. The five rings got: samples of uranium, information on radar, the Asdic detector and the VT-proximity fuse. But the Russians did not get what they wanted most: the know-how of the atomic bomb. The reason was simple. Said the report: "There was no one in Canada who had that information...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: THE DOMINION: Five Red Rings | 7/29/1946 | See Source »

Trial Marriage. In Minneapolis, C. B. Hanscom refused to lend his lie detector to a young man who explained: "I've got some questions I want to ask her before we get married...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 25, 1946 | 3/25/1946 | See Source »

...machines and their operators both had weaknesses. The liars, gaining experience, became so accomplished that Policeman John E. Reid, Chicago's lie-detector expert, has had to modernize his machines to cope with trickier lying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Man v. Machine | 12/10/1945 | See Source »

...original lie detector measured the subject's respiration and blood pressure. These stayed at normal levels while the suspect was answering harmless preliminary questions. But when the questions struck nearer home, the emotional effort of lying made the heart pound harder, the breathing irregular. The machine marked such telltale reactions on a moving strip of paper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Man v. Machine | 12/10/1945 | See Source »

...liars had not yet counterattacked, but no one believed they had really given up. So far, the struggle is a draw: the lie detector's findings are not accepted now (except by mutual agreement) in any court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Man v. Machine | 12/10/1945 | See Source »

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