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Swooping in Seconds. What happened to Mrs. Placente was the first public demonstration of "Operation Corral"-an acronym that police flacks spell out as "Computer Oriented Retrieval of Auto Larcenists." The core of Corral is a borrowed UNIVAC 490, one of Sperry Rand's $500,000 "real time" computers that can analyze an event while the event is happening. Corral's UNIVAC has been fed the license numbers of 30,000 stolen cars and the cars of 80,000 scofflaws-traffic violators who neglect to answer summonses or pay fines...
...send warrants directly to Dublin, where the commissioner of the Garda Siochana will simply order the wanted man picked up and packed off. In effect, the law restores the pre-1964 system, but with the vital difference that a fugitive claiming Irish citizenship gets a 15-day breathing spell to petition for habeas corpus in an Irish court. A pending British law will send Irish warrants to local British magistrates for endorsement, provide the same 15-day grace period and right of habeas corpus. Both laws will also deny extradition for debtors, political and military offenders, and for crimes that...
TELEVISION Wednesday, August 18 WEDNESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-10:47 p.m.).* Hot Spell (1958) with Shirley Booth and Anthony Quinn...
...hope that Unknown Typist Joan Sutherland left Sidney [July 23] for some reason other than that she could spell no better than TIME. Blimey, blokes, call it Sydney just once...
...HIGH WIND IN JAMAICA. A crew of pirates led by a reprobate captain (Anthony Quinn) falls under the spell of seven seemingly innocent children whose adventures have all the fun and much of the fury of Richard Hughes's quasi-classic tale...