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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...melt all the guns

Author: By Gregg J. Kilday, | Title: Cabarets Jacques Brel Is Alive, And, Well, He's Living in a Ballroom At the Somerset Hotel | 10/24/1970 | See Source »

These are real and important questions, but not categorically or universally so. If I leave the city, they immediately lose at least their reality. They almost melt away...

Author: By David R. Ignatius, | Title: Sorting Out City Life | 9/21/1970 | See Source »

...some Republicans that a full-blown Southern strategy could succeed. Nixon received less than one-fifth of his 1968 electoral votes from the South: "Just let the voters feel that their President is trying to outbid George Wallace in the South and watch those slim, non-Southern pluralities melt all over the nation . . . The last Republican presidential aspirant who waged a Southern strategy reveals how successful that approach is. Barry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opinion: The Real Majority | 8/31/1970 | See Source »

...Some roads ripped up to slow Nigerian armored cars have not been repaired. Ex-soldiers, known as "vacuum cleaners" because they are so thorough, roam the region stealing from villagers. In Enugu, a businessman explained why he could never reach Lagos by telephone: "Thieves steal the copper telephone lines, melt them down and sell the ingots in Lagos, where they are made into telephone lines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nigeria: The Unconquerable Ibos | 7/27/1970 | See Source »

...dozen or more varieties of plastics that can be burned, provided the local air-pollution code allows the hospital to use an incinerator. But the PVC (polyvinyl chloride) plastics may generate lethal fumes containing hydrochloric acid and phosgene, a poisonous gas once used in chemical warfare. Other plastics melt and clog the incinerators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Disposing of Disposables | 5/18/1970 | See Source »

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