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...story building after the fire was put out, he found trays and dishes still in the halls. A small point, perhaps, but, concluded Hilliard, "Cline wasn't doing his job, or he wasn't telling the truth." Cline was questioned again and given a lie-detector test. Said Police Lieut. John Connor: "He failed miserably." Finally, Cline signed a statement admitting to a far more sordid story: he had been engaged in a homosexual act on a sofa in the eighth-floor elevator lobby when his marijuana cigarette accidentally ignited window draperies. He knew his partner only...
...smoke detector, apparently set off by paint fumes in the Widener Library staff room, yesterday caused the library to be evacuated for fifteen minutes, William Osborn, Evening Security Supervisor of the library, said yesterday...
...even listed six members of the transition team most dismayed by Percy's performance. Two days later the Washington Star identified one of the six-John Carbaugh, an aide to North Carolina's archconservative Senator Jesse Helms-as the leaker. In high dudgeon, Carbaugh demanded a lie detector test. The State Department asked the FBI last week to investigate the leak, after both Percy and Helms separately called for an inquiry. Conspiratorial types, however, suspect that Helms, who will be the second ranking Republican on the Foreign Relations Committee, is anxious to cut Percy down...
...required no batteries, could work forever, had no moving parts except for the detector. It had its problems, though. It picked up all broadcasting stations but could not separate them and its sound volume was barely noticeable...
...earliest portable radio was the most portable ever made, the lightest, the least expensive and completely solid state. And this was almost 60 years ago. It consisted of a galena crystal detector mounted on a necktie stickpin and had four connections, for antenna, ground and headphones...