Word: polygrapher
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First, the sleep clinicians probe deeply into a patient's sleep habits−for example, by questioning his bed partner. They also video-tape his slumber behavior in special sleeping rooms, where patients spend the night hooked up to a polygraph, a lie-detector-like machine that monitors sleep-related physiological functions (breathing, muscle twitching, rapid eye movement...
...never known his father, was inarticulate, malleable and anxious to please authority. After 25 nearly sleepless hours of questioning and polygraph testing, he almost obligingly agreed with his police interrogators and "confessed" that he had killed his mother. Though he later recanted, a jury believed the prosecution and convicted him of manslaughter. But almost no one who knew the quiet, timid youth felt that he was guilty. Friends and neighbors organized a defense committee. Writer Joan Barthel, who lived near by, became convinced of his innocence, told his story in New Times magazine and eventually wrote a book about...
Seedy Set. In the irreverent MN2 mix, serious news is usually engulfed by the fanciful. Stripper Fanne Fox once delivered the weather report; Disc Jockey Wolfman Jack analyzed the New Hampshire primary results; Actress Terry Moore submitted to a polygraph test about shipboard sex with Howard Hughes. Porn Queen Amber Hunt and Mobster Mickey Cohen both graced one of last week's shows with filmed interviews, she on what thrills, he on forged wills. The zest of MetroNews comes from the ham and hard-boiled-egg match-up of extrovert Anchor Man Charles Rowe, 37, and Reporter-Inquisitor Charles...
When he got his law degree in 1960, the headlines in Massachusetts were filled with the case of George Edgerly, a Lowell auto mechanic accused of murdering his wife and then chopping up her body. By mistake, Edgerly's ailing defense attorney had agreed to the admission of a polygraph test that an expert claimed proved Edgerly's guilt. The lawyer desperately looked around for anyone who knew enough about relatively new techniques to cross-examine the supposed expert. Bailey happened to be studying polygraphs for another client's defense. Barely three months after his admission...
...used a lie detector to uncover the most burning secret of the day: that Johnny Carson would be Jack Paar's replacement on nighttime TV. The tactic did more for his ego than his client. The ploy hardened official resistance, and a state court declined to order the polygraph...