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...before Judge Lincoln had sexually attacked and strangled tiny Deborah and Kimberly Crowther, eight and six, while they were walking in a field near their home last April. It was also established that before the attack, the boy and two friends had sniffed 15 tubes of airplane and plastic glue. Ruled the judge: "The boy is not guilty of the charge by reason that he was incapable of controlling his actions at the time of the killings." The young defendant did not get off scot free, faces a mental hospital or training school until he is 19 as a result...
...tooth enamel, its long chains of molecules serve the same purpose as that of steel reinforcing rods in concrete. In mobile tissues' such as tendons, arteries and heart valves, they are like flexible steel wires. And despite the unfamiliarity of its name, collagen (from the Greek kolla, or glue, and pronounced col-uh-jen) has been popular in the humblest homes for centuries. When the hides and bones of animals are boiled down, they yield that denatured but widely used form of collagen, gelatin...
...while makeup men reworked his uneven toes, then ran up and down a steep hill 20 times to celebrate the joys of Ting foot deodorant. During practice takes for one commercial, shmoo-shaped Peter Gumeny strung a hammock between two wooden blocks stuck to the walls with Weldwood Contact Glue, slipped his 240 lbs. into the sling, and then lay helplessly as the blocks separated and he went crashing to the floor...
...turned-on hippies, the search for new and legal "highs" is endless. In recent years, youthful mind-benders have tripped (or thought they did) on everything from airplane glue to morning-glory seeds, from nutmeg to black...
...Narcotics, Why Not?, another documentary now being widely circulated, the camera focuses on a young boy as he breathes deeply from a paper bag full of airplane glue, then leans back and lets the bag drop from his limp hands; another shot shows police pulling a dazed addict from behind the wheel of a smashed automobile...