Word: detectors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fact, Byrd was totally innocent: his accusers had pocketed their employer's cash; they admitted their crime after flunking a lie-detector test given by the oil company. After they made up the loss, the company filed no charges, and no one notified the police. Byrd, unable to make bail, stayed in jail for almost six months, vainly pleading for a session with a lie-detector test himself. Not until last Jan. 31 did the prosecutor finally permit the test, which the truck driver passed with flying colors; not until last month did the police finally erase Byrd...
Simmons, who was left behind to try to prove his innocence, had two Mexican lawyers, neither of whom spoke enough English to communicate with their bewildered client, one of whom is now a fugitive facing embezzlement charges. Though the defendant voluntarily took two lie-detector tests, which are sometimes admissible in Mexican courts, the inconclusive results were ignored. The murder gun was never found; a clear tire mark at the scene did not match Simmons' tires; hundreds of curiosity seekers obliterated all fingerprints on the death car before police thought of checking it for fingerprints...
...results of lie-detector tests, or a defendant's refusal to take them...
After fitting a 24-inch telescope with a sensitive infra-red detector, the Caltech scientists trained it on the comet for 19 days during its passage around the sun. Their first temperature measurement-700° F.-was made when Ikeya-Seki came within 45 million miles of the sun and heated up enough for its infra-red emissions to be picked up on earth. As the comet raced closer to the sun, its temperature climbed gradually, reaching 1,200° F. about 20 million miles from the solar surface. Then the comet's emissions were blotted...
Rogallo made minor modifications in his dust detector, the biologists supplied the egg, and the unborn chick's heartbeat registered strongly through its unbroken shell. As proof, Rogallo exhibited the live and healthy chick of a bobwhite quail whose incubation had been monitored but undisturbed. And, said Dr. Hartwig proudly, the Food and Drug Administration is completing the space-to-chick-to-man cycle: it is using Rogallo's sensor to study the effects of drugs on the heart...