Science: For Police Mot Pulk

Deep in the shadows of the Loop, Chicagoans took a startled look last fortnight at a 16-ton crime bus, the like of which had never been seen by cop or criminal. This mobile fort, laboratory, hospital and riot car combined was designed for the Illinois State Police by Thomas Peter Sullivan, director of Public Safety, and Leonarde Keeler, developer of the lie detector.

The armor-plated monster (eleven feet high, seven feet wide and almost as long as a freight car) can speed 60 miles per hour to the scene of crime, riot or disaster....

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