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...simultaneous false fire alarms in Lamont Library yesterday sent 150 to 200 people out into the ten-degree weather after a smoke detector in the second-floor smoking room was triggered and someone pulled an alarm on the sixth floor...
Jane R. Morhardt, assistant to the Lamont librarian, said yesterday, "Apparently, someone put a cigarette under the smoke detector, setting it off, and then someone heard the warning and pulled the alarm on the sixth floor...
...There was a fair amount of smoke in the smoking room, but the detector may have been more sensitive than usual," Frank E. Lamentea, the library's assistant business manager, said yesterday...
...dishonest customers, one of their biggest concerns is the rate at which their own employees are doing the lifting. The Commerce Department asserts that at least half of inventory loss is due to theft by employees. As a result, more and more companies are making job applicants take lie detector tests or written "honesty tests." A sample question: "Do you think a person should be fired if he cheats a company out of money several times each month on his expense account?" One Chicago firm of polygraph examiners, John E. Reid and Associates, which conducts both types of tests...
...last week's end the FBI appeared near a break on the case after administering lie detector tests to bank employees. (The chief teller and almost all of the 100 other bank workers passed the test with no trouble.) Said an FBI agent cryptically: "The pieces are beginning to fall together. We do have some suspects; we have narrowed it down." One theory was that someone with access to the vaults had walked off with the cash and turned it over to a confederate, who had flown it out of the country. The prospect of an arrest without recovery...