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...blackmail and barter for positions of power. He wants to liquidate them to consolidate his power and go on to bigger plots. His plan is carried out almost according to the letter, with just one hitch, stashed right at the end of the movie like a one-celled flashlight at the end of a long tunnel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bamboozled | 11/25/1974 | See Source »

Cottell is producing more reactors to sell to institutions and industry and for use in apartment buildings. He is also developing a smaller model, the size of a flashlight, that he hopes to market for homeowners and motorists at $50 to $100 each. Now Cottell is experimenting with a new emulsion that will consist of 55% oil, 30% water and 15% sludge, the slushy sediment produced by partially treating sewer wastes. Recycled sewage, he says, may well be a fuel of the future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FUELS: Oil and Water Alchemy | 2/11/1974 | See Source »

...Escaro told it, he happened to be passing the paper's new premises at 173 rue St.-Honoré when he noticed flashlight beams coming from the third-floor office of the managing director. Investigating, he found three workers in blue overalls and two other men in street clothes who explained that they were installing the heating; Escaro, however, happened to recall that the work had been done three weeks earlier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Bugging the Duck | 12/17/1973 | See Source »

...gear, as shown by the tools and papers confiscated from them by Washington police. Among the items seized, counterclockwise from lower right: metal mouthpiece that disguises the voice when speaking on the telephone; Social Security card with phony name, used by Conspirator E. Howard Hunt Jr.; tape, screwdriver, pliers, flashlight and other burglar's tools. Lower left: phone numbers found on a Watergate conspirator listing Hunt's White House number. This was one of the primary clues that led police to trace the break-in plot to the White House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Tools of Watergate | 5/21/1973 | See Source »

...with refugees from the northern provinces after the fall of Quang Tri May 1. Fragments of families fill schools, pagodas, churches and old U.S. military barracks. Though the government distributes rice, there is never enough to eat, and women can be seen selling penny candy, gum, flashlight batteries, salt-anything to turn a small profit to fill out the spartan diet. When the bread trucks come, covered with flies, young boys sneak up, reach in and steal an extra loaf for their families...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: The Refugees: Journey Without End | 6/26/1972 | See Source »

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