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...That "drinking fountain surfaces which become wet during fountain operation shall be constructed of materials impervious to water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Good Riddance | 11/6/1978 | See Source »

...numerous James Bondian devices that can make murder look like natural death ?poison delivered by aerosol spray, tiny darts fired from pens or cigarette boxes. In the late '50s a KGB agent killed two Ukrainian exile leaders in Germany by squirting prussic acid into their faces from a fountain pen; the symptoms made it appear that the men had died of simple heart attacks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: The Poisonous Umbrella | 10/16/1978 | See Source »

Interestingly, as this nascent political partnership matured, the Protestant Jerusalem that was once the epicenter of sectarian strife has become, almost silently, Catholic turf. With the exception of a single neighborhood, called the Fountain, the old walled city of Derry today is almost exclusively populated by families who would have been excluded ten years ago. The change is hardly a tribute to any growing spirit of tolerance, however, since a prime reason most Protestants left was to seek more modern housing in the newly developed?and heavily Protestant?district of Waterside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTHERN IRELAND: Power in Derry | 9/4/1978 | See Source »

...arbor. There are in fact about 16 kinds of permanent bird residents on the White House's 18 acres-catbird, house finch, downy woodpecker, fish crow, rock dove, gold finch. And another 38 kinds drop by for visits. A couple of Mallard scooted in to see the South Fountain. Evenden, lurking in the bushes, spotted itinerant yellow-throats, towhees, pewees, chickadees, ruby-throated hummingbirds, red-eyed vireos and a red-breasted nuthatch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: Warblers, Lemonade and Surf | 8/14/1978 | See Source »

...tirades and, on occasion, paranoia. During a qualifying match with Spassky earlier this year, he accused his opponent of inducing hallucinations via hypnosis, and even suspected microwaves had been employed to destroy his concentration. In Baguio City last week he demanded the right to bring to the match a fountain pen-sized device designed to detect "X rays, gamma rays and other radiation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Pawns and Politics in Baguio City | 7/24/1978 | See Source »

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