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...banks must provide even more of their own security. In some branches, New York's Citibank has been installing floor-to-ceiling Plexiglas "bandit barriers" between tellers and customers. Banks are also using sophisticated detector devices to increase the robber's risk of being caught. Among them: scented capsules wrapped inside rolls of bills, which, when squeezed, release the strong identifying odor of rotten eggs, and dye packs inserted in stacks of bills, which spew out smoke that stains everything it touches bright crimson. A few bankers' groups offer rewards for tips leading to the arrest...
...matter may never emerge. Under questioning by committee members, Byers has stuck by the informant's account of the $50,000 bounty on King. It is not clear whether he also confirmed that the money was paid to Ray. The committee plans to administer a lie-detector test to Ray about the tale; he will be removed from jail to testify at the hearings. But Kauffmann and Sutherland have both died, and their widows insist that their husbands had nothing to do with the murder of the civil rights leader...
State investigators questioned Rowe again about the bombing and had him take two lie-detector tests last fall. He flunked both of them. Just why he failed is in dispute. Some Birmingham detectives now suspect that he was with the Klansmen who planted the bomb. State investigators think Rowe may only have been withholding key information about the crime from interrogators...
...later, Hongisto described in detail six abuses, among them an allegation that the mayor had obstructed his efforts to clean up the vice squad. Cried Kucinich: "He's concocting these stories so he can exit as a hero." Hongisto then proposed that he and the mayor take lie-detector tests. Kucinich refused. Said he: "I may be dealing with a fellow who is pathological. His own lie-detector results would not be conclusive...
True, it would be easy to exaggerate the importance of this insight, but the effort should be made. After all, a surefire way to penetrate even the most obscure jokes would be a blessing to any era. And in this time, a humor-detector promises to provide the precise guide that is the very thing Americans need...