Word: tracings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Doctors have yet to determine the genetic defect responsible for Joseph illness. But they have been able to trace its transmission. The disease can be passed on only by those who are actually afflicted; each of their offspring has a fifty-fifty chance of inheriting the ailment. Unfortunately, it is almost impossible to detect before it begins-sometimes in the victims' teens, more usually in the mid-20s. By then, they have often started having children of their own and have passed the family disease along to them...
...silence. After reading about a family afflicted with a similar hereditary illness (TIME, Jan. 25, 1971) and carrying the clippings in her purse for three years, she finally wrote the National Genetics Foundation last February and asked for help. The result of her call was a massive effort to trace all of Joseph's descendants and a gathering of the clan last week at Oakland's Children's Hospital Medical Center...
...owner. They learn that he has bought at least five cars in recent weeks; all the addresses on the papers are false. Back in New York, the police check out a dozen possible Frankies and are convinced their man is Frankie Segarra, a small-time pusher. Other officers trace a dog-vaccination certificate that they found in the Plymouth to the girl friend of a Luis Serrano Velez. They think he is the triggerman. Her address lists the wrong street, but police check 507 East on every street in the area until they find her apartment at 507 East 13th...
...wanted for allegedly taking part in the bank jobs). Raids based on tips about the suspects in the cop-killing cases have also uncovered various small caches of narcotics and $8,000 in cash, and led to the arrest of a parole violator wanted for two years. But no trace of Velez...
...with a fat telescopic sight, the gun fires a toxin-tipped dart, almost silently and accurately up to 250 ft. Moreover, the dart is so tiny-the width of a human hair and a quarter of an inch long-as to be almost indetectable, and the poison leaves no trace in a victim's body...