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...greatest U.S. victories in Africa last week were political rather than military. They followed months of shrewd State Department maneuvering (see p. 75). It began in the winter of 1940, when worldly, good-natured Robert Murphy, U.S. Counselor of Embassy at Vichy, was sent to Algiers as a supersonic detector of French African affairs. It was Mr. Murphy who arranged with General Maxime Weygand to deliver U.S. food to the French colonies. Mr. Murphy and scores of U.S. agents saw that the food got there. In the process they made friends for the U.S. all over the colonies, got facts...
...crime bus, the like of which had never been seen by cop or criminal. This mobile fort, laboratory, hospital and riot car combined was designed for the Illinois State Police by Thomas Peter Sullivan, director of Public Safety, and Leonarde Keeler, developer of the lie detector...
...spot detective work-a lie detector, blood-analysis equipment, still-and motion-picture outfits complete with darkroom, devices for examining explosive packages...
Demonstration. In The Bronx, while an audience watched a lie detector pick the criminal in a mock theft, a thief stole three coats and two hats...
Bill Eddy read lips to pass his physical examination at Annapolis, got the highest I.Q. rating ever recorded there. He served ten years as a submarine commander before the Navy discovered in 1934 how deaf he was. To hide his deafness, he had invented a submarine detector that put sound on a dial where he could see it; now it is standard Navy equipment...