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...early researcher in the field, estimates that at least half of the 6,000 children on amphetamines in Rhode Island should not be. In Seattle, one researcher found several children taking the drugs when their restlessness actually was caused by poor eyesight or allergic reactions to the glue or dye in their schoolbooks...
Wallace looks good. His hair is mod-shaggy down to his collar, and he rubs in a little brown dye to cover up the graying streaks. He is fashionably dressed and sometimes downright dapper. With his new wife advising him, he has switched his wardrobe to double knits. "They are so easy to use when you are traveling," Cornelia says. "I am dressing better than I used to," admits Wallace. "Remember the last time I campaigned, my wife had just died. Governor Lurleen? And the trouble with campaigning by yourself is that clothes...
...Perhaps the most common devices now being offered to fed-up Manhattanites are inexpensive ($5 and under) tear-gas sprays, available in many drugstores. Often combined with dye that marks an attacker for police identification, these sprays come disguised as everything from cigarette lighters to lipsticks. There is also the $9.98 electric shock rod, a gadget that operates on four ordinary flashlight batteries and, according to the firm that markets it, releases "enough power to stop an angry bull in its tracks." The rod is more likely to prove shocking to the user when it fails to deter the attacker...
...bits of steel as the troops were attacked by what the army described as "200 or 300 young hooligans." The army responded, first with gas grenades and rubber bullets-ugly black projectiles half as thick as beer cans-then with water cannons that sprayed the crowd with purple dye...
Under the cover of night on April 21, 1970, five Miamians, calling themselves the "Eco-Commando Force '70," sneaked into six sewage-treatment plants and threw packets of yellow dye into the works. The next day half of Dade County's canals turned bright yellow, graphically illustrating that Miami's inadequately treated sewage does not get far from home...