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...innocence is moving lower, into junior high schools and occasional grade schools, where youngsters seeking ersatz maturity even gulp codeine-laden cough medicine. (Glue sniffing is expected to decline as word gets out that the largest maker of model-airplane glue is adding sickening mustard fumes to its product's aroma.) Washington's District of Columbia Addiction Center has uncovered pot users as young as eight years...
Lovell also has looked to the skies for a long time. At 16, he designed and built a rocket that rose 80 ft. on a fuel mixture of gunpowder and airplane glue. And in a term paper at Annapolis, he predicted that rockets would really have their day after man finally penetrated the vacuum of space. Early in his astronaut training, Lovell bubbled over with so much nervous energy that fellow astronauts called him "Shaky"-although he has since proved that he is nerveless in space...
...their lettering readable at a glance. Quite a few get carried away with the fun of it all. With a special edition of her 1967 Pittsburgh International poster interweaving script, numbers and a fanciful Mideast landscape, Mary Bauermeister threw in a set of hand-painted wood cutouts. Collectors can glue them on and make it a collage...
...converted a conference room into a bizarre workshop. The staff watched with growing curiosity as he collected an improbable mess of dismembered store-window mannequins, overturned cornflakes boxes, scattered cigarettes and disarrayed lingerie, and began to stuff it all into a gutted TV set. With hammer and saw, glue and plaster, Scarfe concocted a many-armed "assemblage." For a final fillip, he managed to attach a serving of spaghetti- which was no mean trick, since the soft strands kept slithering off the plate under the hot photographic lights...
...April two freshmen bought three tubes of airplane glue in a store downtown. When asked to sign for it, they wrote their real names. The store called up the police that afternoon. The police called the school And their housemaster found them sniffing it when he went upstairs. They were put on probation...