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...will probably infer guilt. Bailey, however, interviewed the first-trial jurors and was convinced that his client's rather arch answers on the witness stand had hurt him badly. Sheppard did not testify at his second trial and, fortunately for him, neither did Susan Hayes, the attractive lab technician who appeared at Ihe first trial and suggested a motive by admitting she had been Sheppard's mistress. Indeed, This lime, with Susan married and living in California, Ihe prosecution barely gol her name into Ihe record...
...romance of spying went out with Mata Hari. Such is the nature of the game today that a lowly government code clerk or a technician who punches computer cards at a missile site may be a more important intelligence source -and far more difficult to detect-than the disgruntled general or the indiscreet diplomat. Last week, in a case that has still undetermined links in Britain, the FBI arrested a characteristically obscure technician on charges of conspiring with the Russians. Held on $50,000 bail was a crew-cut Air Force communications operator and repairman, Staff Sergeant Herbert Boecken-haupt...
...visiting doctor at the A.M.A. meeting had just had a little blood drawn from his arm. He watched while a technician dropped the specimen into the machine. Within a minute, he saw pastel-colored samples of his diluted serum being pumped through a dozen spaghetti-thin plastic tubes. Lights began to flash on and off, and a mechanical pen started to trace a red line on a chart. The doctor noted with equanimity that the thin red line passing through the columns of the chart was reporting normal amounts of calcium, albumin and cholesterol in his blood. Then...
Cheaper by the Dozen. Standard tests for single blood factors generally cost a patient from $2 to $5; half a dozen tests may cost a package price of $15 or so. The old-fashioned process is also costly in technicians' time, while doctor and patient wait hours or days for the results. Dr. Albert L. Chasson told a Technicon symposium last week in Manhattan that the SMA-12, which he operates at Rex Hospital in Raleigh, N.C., is testing 10,000 blood samples a year at a price to the patient of $9 for the dozen chemical determinations. Only...
Walter Palmer, a 31-year-old medical technician, knows most of the men who frequent the tavern. When Palmer walked in one Saturday in August, a reporter waiting for him across the street could see, through the doorways, the reception he got. A handful of men rushed over and surrounded him with talk and laughter. Others took their beers with them and listened...