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Somewhere, somehow, John H. ("Chip") White Jr., 17, heard that inhaling the fumes from an aerosol can of cocktail-glass chiller was a cheap and safe way to turn on. So Chip, the son of a New York advertising executive, began sniffing the stuff. Last week he bought a fresh supply at a hardware store and took it to his house in Greenwich, Conn. He suggested to his sister, Lucie, 11, that they both try it. It was 8 p.m. While their parents sat downstairs, Chip and Lucie went into a second-floor bedroom. When Lucie inhaled...
...thing that helped avert bloodshed in New Haven last week was a small aerosol bomb, the "Chemical Mace," that is being put into use by some 2,000 law-enforcement agencies across the country and in time may well replace the head-cracking, bone-breaking billy club. Dubbed the "gentle persuader" by some policemen, the Mace fits inconspicuously in a belt holster-and looks about as persuasive as a can of shaving foam...
...grown into a $408 million-a-year company with 40 plants in the United Kingdom, 32 more in Africa, Asia, Italy and the West Indies. Still working closely with Continental Can, the company has diversified into container products ranging from cardboard boxes and packaging labels to polyethylene bottles and aerosol valves. But it is on the tin cans used for food, beer and soft drinks that Metal Box truly thrives. Thanks to high-powered marketing, the company accounts for 90% of Britain's food-can sales, has just announced record pretax profits of $38.1 million over the past fiscal...
...MacBird's first press conference ("This land will be a garden carefully pruned; / We'll lop off any branch that looks too tall / That seems to grow too lofty or too fast") and in the spectacle of a mad Lady MacBird sweetening the land with bouquets and aerosol deodorant. To assert that MacBird rapes the old Swan with no intelligence and no compassion is evidently to miss the point, for Miss Garson makes no claims for her idiom or for her pentameters. "I worked for four months with Shakespeare in front of me," she reports, "so I know the difference...
...unpredictable. Military strategists cannot measure the exact range a virus will cover, the way they can for a fusion blast. Resistance to the disease would be unknown, and would vary with the victims. The problems of delivering the dose, which would have to be in the form of an aerosol cloud, are technically difficult, Meselson suggests. "Even if it could be improved in the remote future," he says, military control "would suffer along...