Word: lie-detector
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...carry lengthy analyses of legislation before Congress and think pieces on such top ics as automation and narcotics. They are almost all unabashedly Democratic in their politics, and they tend to embark simultaneously on the same liberal campaigns: to abolish right-to-work laws, for instance, or to ban lie-detector tests from employment procedure. But the labor press no longer paints issues entirely in black and white, says Gordon Cole, editor of the Machinist (circ. 868,000) who once worked for the Wall Street Journal. "Now they present a lot more grey. In fact, people don't believe...
...workers are sometimes trapped by counterspy-workers sent into plants by such protective agencies as Willmark or the Merit Protective Service. Companies on the defensive are also using closed-circuit television, two-way mirrors, lie-detector tests, and telephone taps of their own. But the very best preventive, businessmen decided at the A.M.A. meeting, is none of these things: it is for companies to keep their employees so content that they will not stoop to snoop for others, and will not be tempted to take their secrets to another company...
...people are being exterminated at this moment. Consequently, a whole new form of government is going to take over our country, and I know I won't live to see you another time. Do I sound sort of screwy in telling you these things?" Repeatedly, he demanded a lie-detector test-later granted-and begged Justice Warren to take him to Washington, on the grounds that his life was not safe in Dallas. He seemed uncertain of his audience: "Am I boring you?" he inquired, and again: "Do you follow the story as I tell...
...News, which, only three weeks after the Warren Commission's June session with Ruby, front-paged a copyrighted paraphrase of the same testimony. Like Miss Kilgallen, the News declined to reveal its source. Another leak furnished Dallas' Times Herald, with the full transcript of Ruby's lie-detector test...
...defendant, Weinman concluded, and he should have disqualified himself. While the trial was under way, the presiding judge confided to Columnist Dorothy Kilgallen, among others, that Sheppard was "guilty as hell." Contrary to settled law, he allowed the Cleveland police to testify that Sheppard had refused to take a lie-detector test, then failed to instruct the jury that they should disregard this testimony in their decision. Finally, even while the jurors were deliberating, they were allowed to phone their friends. No court official knew what was said...