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...suspect, the odds of finding a match are greatly reduced. Los Angeles police estimate that it would have taken a single expert searching manually through the city's 1.7 million print cards 67 years to come up with Richard Ramirez's prints. "Frankly speaking," says Commander Bill Rathburn, "most of the dusting for prints we do is for public relations purposes, to show people that we're doing something to pursue the criminal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: Taking a Byte Out of Crime | 10/14/1985 | See Source »

...Once the Games begin, representatives of all the law-enforcement agencies involved will staff the Pentagon-designed nerve center round the clock. Five large screens will project an array of security information, like the size of a traffic jam or the location of a hostage incident. Says Commander William Rathburn of the Los Angeles police department (L.A.P.D.), who will oversee the operation: " A civilian security coordination effort of this magnitude has never before been undertaken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Guard for the Games | 7/9/1984 | See Source »

Observers from Los Angeles, where protection will be the major worry at the Summer Games, include Mayor Tom Bradley, Police Chief Daryl Gates and Police Olympic Planner William Rathburn. Their problems will be larger, but it may have helped to see the queues backed up at metal detectors, delaying crowds of spectators for hockey games...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Snows, and Glows, of Sarajevo | 2/20/1984 | See Source »

...York entry, 1927's The Five O'Clock Girl, is as perishable as a butterfly's wings and possesses the same gossamer enchantment. In this never-ever land, a laundry-girl slavey, Patricia Brown (Lisby Larson), develops a crush on a bachelor socialite, Gerald Brooks (Roger Rathburn), and telephones his penthouse every afternoon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: MATING CALL | 2/9/1981 | See Source »

Thus the Nominee came to Montana, home state of U. S. Senator Thomas. J. Walsh, arch-flayer of things oily and scandalous. He lost one of the brown derbies, a gift to Mrs. George Rathburn of Billings. But he found inspiration from two sources. The first was an early-morning remark of Daughter Emily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Off The Sidewalks | 10/1/1928 | See Source »

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