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Murderers' Row exchanges Berlin-trigue for erospionage. The film describes the latest adventure of Matt Helm (Dean Martin), a U.S. super-snooper who doesn't seem to know the difference between spying and peeping. Matt lives high in a penthouse equipped with a swimming pool built for two, a pushbutton bed that rises to any occasion, and a harem of twelve haymates (among them a cutie named Lovey Kravezit...
...police station: he meets Margaret Rutherford on her way in. And Miss Rutherford's gag guest appearance as Agatha Christie's Miss Marple is the only thing that is funny about this arch and clumsy attempt to launch Randall as another celebrated Christie character, the Belgian snooper-sleuth Hercule Poirot...
...power to produce the snooper's stream of neutrons comes from a simple gasoline engine that runs a primitive type of particle accelerator. A beam of deuterium (or heavy hydrogen) particles emitted by the generator is directed against deuterium absorbed in a titanium target. As the deuterium particles collide, they release neutrons that are channeled into a beam that can cover a two-square-foot area of ground. The entire device, including the recording instruments, is small and light enough to be carried in the back of a Jeep. It has already been given trials in the field...
...such test, the snooper successfully detected silver ore particles that scientists had "seeded" in the ground at Greenbelt, Md. In another test, near Mineral, Va., the snooper determined that natural deposits of silver in an old zinc-mining area were too small to exploit economically. Geological Survey Physicist Frank Senftle, who headed the group that developed the snooper, believes that commercial models can be available for use as early as this fall, at a cost of between $25,000 and $35,000 per unit...
...prospectors who find that price too steep, the Survey scientists are already developing a hand-held "baby snooper" that is expected to cost about $3,000. It will shoot low-energy X rays at the ground, causing silver on the surface to fluoresce, and will measure the fluorescence on a scintillation counter. Senftle sees the baby snooper as the silver equivalent of the inexpensive Geiger counter, which leads uranium prospectors directly to their quarry...