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...steps into a stall shower and gets ready to sing. What comes jetting down upon him, however, is not water but streams of deadly gas. He tries to turn it off. Impossible. He tries the door. It is locked and batterproof. It appears that he will surely die. But he quickly wraps a shaving-cream bomb in a towel, wedges it against the door, sprinkles it with after-shave lotion, and touches the flame of a cigarette lighter to this ingenious subnuclear device. The blazing lotion heats the shaving cream until it explodes volcanically, and Napoleon Solo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Man Inside the Man from U.N.C.LE. | 1/29/1965 | See Source »

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