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...develop the Vidicon primarily for house detectives and G-men. It was aiming at the important field of "industrial television," where the Vidicon will have vast importance. In the roaring, naming innards of modern industry there are many goings-on too dangerous for human eyes to watch. A cheap, expendable Vidicon can creep up close to a new machine being tested "to destruction." It can brave the flood of gamma rays from a nuclear reactor. It can ride on a guided missile or watch the detonating mechanism of an atomic bomb. Up to the time when it "dies," the faithful...
...after he discovered FBI men were searching his room in Manhattan's Edison Hotel in 1940. He typed a series of mysterious notes, tore them up, and planted them in his wastebasket; then he rented a room in a nearby hotel and nightly watched through binoculars as the G-men tried to put. the pieces together...
...week's end, 77 G-men had testified in Manhattan's federal courthouse or submitted affidavits. All of them were busy trying to answer Federal Judge Sylvester Ryan's pertinent question: How much of the Government's espionage case against Government Girl Judy Coplon and Russia's suspended U.N. employee, Valentin Gubichev, was based on wiretapping evidence gathered illegally...
...G-man Hoover could say that the day of the gangster was over. His G-men were the new popular heroes, immortalized ever since on the screen and on the air, and on a thousand box tops, bearing the morning cereal to American boys. The pursuers, not the pursued, had become the object of hero worshipers' affections...
First Pinch. Hoover had long since won over most of his earlier detractors. Even the local cops, who had once resented the G-men's headline-grabbing talents, were boosters now. The last time Congress even questioned an FBI appropriation was in 1936, when Tennessee's querulous Senator Kenneth McKellar wanted to know why G-man Hoover wasn't out risking his own neck. Hoover had to admit that he had never personally made a pinch...