Word: arsenicals
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Because Paul Horowitz has always loved gadgets, and because he had always wondered how much arsenic was on the skin of unwashed apples, he didn't notice the two graduate students talking as he leaned over his newest creation, the proton microscope. They were impatient to try their own more traditional experiments--analyses of ancient pottery shards--and they had driven from MIT to Lincoln Laboratories in Lexington earlier that morning expecting that Horowitz would not be there, that his new gadget would be free. Horowitz, who had come on impulse from his home three minutes away, did not seem...
...caught the radiation bouncing off the apple, measured pulses, and eventually spit out sets of numbers that revealed which heavy elements were present. He made some quick calculations, and detected iron and calcium--he expected them. He looked at a third set of numbers, and found that it was arsenic--about 30 parts per million...
...observers were shocked, but Horowitz showed no surprise. He didn't know how much arsenic was dangerous, but he had heard that many orchards used an insecticide of arsenic and oil that could easily be washed off. The results would be good cocktail party conversation but little more, and Horowitz was already losing interest. He had a new idea...
...Arsenic and Old Lace is that old play about two old women in an old mansion in Brooklyn who knock people off with poisoned elderberry wine, a play that a lot of people seem to think is funny. The Leverett House production is very well done, though. Fri. at 8 p.m. and midnight...
...Arsenic and Old Lace is opening tonight at Leverett House, which by now has a long tradition of good productions. 8 in the Old Library, McKinlock Hall. I know of no corpses in the basement there--on the other hand, I used to know someone who maintained that her grocer had stuffed marijuana in her flowerpot, and then tipped off the cops...