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...double murder in the fishing village was the first capital crime ever solved by the comparison of fingerprints, and that solution constituted a major breakthrough for the infant science of criminology. In less than a century, that science has developed from rule of thumb into an enormously intricate medico-legal discipline, and the story of its development, as described by Jurgen Thorwald (The Century of the Surgeon) with impressive literary and scientific competence, is a tale of blood and bloodhounds, wills and pills, pathologists and psychopaths. For sheer suspense and wallowing aceldama, it is worth a hundred whodunits...
...were then elucidated-the blood of a person who dies suddenly, it was discovered, coagulates rapidly, but then, for no known reason reliquefies. The pathology of rape was explored-semen, somebody noted, emits a pale blue glow under ultraviolet light. And some brilliant solutions were provided for a major medico-legal problem: How to detect murder disguised as suicide...
DAYS OF OUR LIVES (NBC, 2-2:30 p.m.). The premiere of another soap-and-scalpel opera, this time starring Macdonald Carey as the melodramatic medico...
...Bedford Incident. Assigned to track Soviet submarine movements in the North Atlantic, the destroyer U.S.S. Bedford is laden with detecting devices, rocket-booster torpedoes and predatory instincts. "A floating IBM machine," says Medico Martin Balsam, who wishes he were back in the Reserves. Bedford's crewmen look more like science majors than sea dogs. They don't play poker, they don't go on sick call. Furthermore, Balsam grumbles: "Can you picture any of these guys singing Anchors Aweighl...
...Once back in Houston, back to his wearing schedule, back to the demands of days filled with life-and-death decisions, DeBakey will return to the medico-political battles that he never shuns. A progressive Democrat and an acquaintance of President Johnson, DeBakey favors the use of federal funds for medicine. "The Federal Govern ment," he says, "has already put a lot of money into medicine, and every physician in the United States is better off for it-better off than he ever was before...