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...politics and the civil service. He established an absolute authority at the beginning. He demanded that his agents have either a law or an accounting degree, resisted any and all political pressures. Hoover turned the bureau into the world's most efficient crime-fighting apparatus, with an elaborate fingerprint library and crime laboratory. In 1930, the FBI became the clearinghouse for national crime statistics, reported by state and local authorities...
...absence of any written evidence dating back so far in time, Aström suggested, the archaeologists should begin collecting fingerprints from ancient pottery fragments and clay tablets. Aström's theory is based on the possibility-under increasing study by modern fingerprint experts-that individual races, nations, tribes display a distinctive overall pattern in the distribution of arches, loops and whorls. If an archaeologist came upon a sudden break in the fingerprint patterns of an ancient population, Aström argued, he could logically assume that it had been displaced or absorbed by invaders...
...support his case for archaeological fingerprinting, Aström and a friend, Sven Eriksson, chief of the Swedish police's fingerprint department, collected some 200 impressions from ancient pottery found in Greece and Cyprus. The Mycenaean fingerprints had a distribution of 20% arches, 65% loops, 15% whorls, while those from Minoan Crete, a civilization some 1,000 years older, show a contrasting distribution of 4%, 42%, 54%. Their sampling was admittedly too small to suggest any major answer to perennial disputes. "My purpose," Aström explained, "is to maintain that fingerprints can be used in defining a population...
Fragments of the demolished desk of Col. Donald Bletz, a CFIA associate, have been sent to Washington where the FBI is processing a partial fingerprint found on one of the fragments. FBI labs are also analyzing fragments of the cast-iron pipe used to construct the bomb. There is speculation the Fragments are similar to fragments of material used in other Massachusetts bombings...
...monitoring oscilloscope, he recalls, he saw "a bump that hadn't been there before." When the antenna was slightly moved, the bump disappeared. The scientists could scarcely believe their eyes. Though the equipment had just been switched on, it was already vigorously responding at 115 billion hertz-the fingerprint of carbon monoxide. The carbon-monoxide signals are, in fact, so strong, Jefferts says, that they almost "jump up and bite you." Any lingering doubts were totally dispelled in the next few nights. Shifting their telescope to other areas of the Milky Way, the astrochemists found at least ten galactic...