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...they slept. The gas quickly enveloped the city's railway station, where beggars were huddled against the chill. In minutes, a score had died and 200 others were gravely ill. Through temples and shops, over streets and lakes, across a 25-sq.-mi. quadrant of the city, the cloud continued to spread, noiselessly and lethally. The night air was fairly cool (about 60° F), the wind was almost calm, and a heavy mist clung to the earth; those conditions prevented the gas from dissipating, as it would have done during...
...small explosion sparks a fire within a local laboratory, releasing half a liter of toxic nerve gas agents through a broken window into the atmosphere. A warm summer's breeze carries the cloud of nerve gas past a nearby highway, motel, bowling alley, playground and disco. In a matter of minutes, several hundred unsuspecting people are subject to the devastating effects of toxic substances...
...gaseous cloud released by several tons of methyl isocyanate blanketed the Indian community of 900,000 before anyone could escape. In the event of a similar Cambridge accident, however, a half kilogram of nerve gas emanating from ADL would have "some impact, but nowhere near the effect of the thing in India," says Edmund Crouch, a Harvard physicist who lent his risk-assessing skills to the local advisory group...
...federal officials, since the most important goal of the test had been to see if a big fire could be prevented. The jet's 12,000 gal. of fuel contained an experimental anti-misting additive, years in development, that was supposed to prevent escaping fuel from forming a cloud of mist and then igniting into a deadly fireball. The test had been set up so that fuel would spill and be given a good chance to burn: the wings were shredded by 400-lb. blades that protruded from the Mojave Desert like giant can openers, and the landing surface...
...dreams, Romance Language builds up its head of hallucinatory steam only when the night is half over. But at full throttle, Playwright Parnell's mixture of historical figures and fanciful situations makes a genial noise. This is the land of vaudeville revisionism previously charted by Indians, Travesties and Cloud 9, where social satire speaks in the vocabulary of dreams-the mind's own romance language. It is a pleasure to see Cynthia Harris (Charlotte), Valerie Mahaffey (Emily) and the 19 other cast members cavort so merrily on the tabletop stage of Manhattan's Playwrights Horizons Theater, complementing...