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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When the gas spread across nearby Route 231, it looked at first like fog to Richard Kuhn, who was driving home to New York from a skindiving vacation in Florida. Then his van stalled and he got a whiff of the searing vapor. Kuhn strapped on his scuba air tank and walked out of the death cloud to safety. Another motorist, Donald Sellers of Tallahassee, a veteran of Army chemical-warfare training, recognized the gas as chlorine and told his wife to get to the floor of the car, where there was still breathable air. "We were both vomiting...
...ideologues. In answer they would probably paraphrase G.K. Chesterton to the effect that socialism, like Christianity, has not failed, because it has never been tried. Surveying Tanzania's mounting problems, for example, President Nyerere urges patience. "We are like a man who does not get smallpox because he got himself vaccinated," he explains. "His arm is sore, and he feels sick for a while. If he has never seen what smallpox does to people, he may feel very unhappy during that period and wish he had never agreed to the vaccination...
...conical thatched roof and sides out of wattle (interwoven hazel branches) and daub (mud and animal hair). Making a loaf of bread the Celtic way took nearly a day. Fashioning clay storage pots took longer, and the early pottery tended to crack over the fire-until the novices got the hang of their craft. Says Helen Elphick: "We were all very frustrated...
Carr's conduct got him into as much trouble as his outspokenness. His high-handed handling of his staff produced a ceaseless round of firings and resignations. He acted like the ecumenical Pope of Africa, and grass-roots Christians complained that he paid scant attention to their opinions. Many took offense at the 1974 assembly's proclamation of a missionary-go-home policy (since downplayed) and its declaration of war against "theological conservatism...
...unsuccessful shot at "being Bob Dylan. " After a time, Warren drifted back to Los Angeles, scuffled around the fringes of the pop world. He wrote advertising jingles, played piano for the Everly Brothers (the "little Suzie" who gets mangled by the excitable boy is a wry nod at them), got' a song onto the sound track of Midnight Cowboy and made one album called Wanted Dead or Alive that attracted scant attention. Eventually he met up with Crystal, and took off to Spain, where he sang for his supper in a Costa Brava saloon run by a soldier...