Word: fingerprinting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...classify bacterial troublemakers are complex, time-consuming and sometimes inconclusive. Often, before the results are in, the disease has spread or the patient has died. In the future, though, bacteria may lose their cloak of anonymity more quickly. Scientists have discovered that each species and strain has a distinctive "fingerprint" that can be used for virtu ally immediate identification...
...building itself was fairly overrun with other FBI types because the Bureau has long recommended it as a nice place to live. Subsequently, someone fingered Carter, whose FBI job was as a fingerprint clerk. Two days later, he was summoned before the agent in charge of his division. He was told that a formal complaint had been filed about his behavior and ordered to write a statement explaining why he had slept in the same room with a woman. Tom Carter wrote his report, which failed to satisfy his superiors. On Aug. 26 he was fired from...
...code of ethics for police across the country. His department was the first to use blood, fiber and soil analysis in detection (1907); the first to use the lie detector (a Berkeley cop collaborated in inventing the polygraph in 1921); it was an early developer of a fingerprint classification system (1924) and the first to use radio-equipped squad cars...
...printed abnormalities up to 20. And although most such disorders involve chromosomal defects determined at the moment of conception, the latest implicated a viral disease. To get clear prints from the hands of tiny, squirming infants, Dr. Achs and her colleagues found that the policeman's inkpad and fingerprint technique would not do; instead they used a direct photographic method developed by New York's Philips Laboratories. The babies' palms were pressed against a prism so that the print was reflected and magnified, and could be photographed with a Polaroid camera...
...greatest danger facing Latin America, Adlai Stevenson reminded critics last week, is not the threat of armed conflicts between nations but "camouflaged aggression, subversion so subtle that it can sometimes be exported without a fingerprint." Today's world, Stevenson warned, "is too volatile to permit the spread of militant violence. And until the international community is ready to rescue victims of clandestine aggression, national power will have to fill the vacuum. It is the most costly, the most dangerous and the least desirable kind of peace-keeping-and the sooner it becomes unnecessary, the better it will...