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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...laxative." When contents of two suspect shakers were analyzed, their salt was found mixed with 2.36% by weight of atropine, a deadly white, crystalline alkaloid poison made of the nightshade plant. For adults, as little as 10 mg. of atropine can cause coma, and a salt-hungry canteen customer might presumably have shaken enough on his food to make himself pretty sick. "Tragedies were prevented," said Hazelhoff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: In the Salt | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

...closer all the same. Across the channel, the Devon County Council had sent off a letter to Her Majesty's Boundary Commission urging its claims on Lundy. For one thing, argued the council, if ever a crime were committed on the island, the jurisdiction of the Devon police might "be called into question. It would therefore be desirable to tidy up this point." This sort of tidying up is just what the Lundyites abhor; it was even worse than that dark episode back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LUNDY: Untidy Little Island | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

Stunned by the tactics of the Congo leaders, De Schrijver told Parliament in Brussels that independence might be possible in 1960, after all. giving in to Kasavubu's demands for direct national elections early in the year. Hours after De Schrijver made his new offer, the 29-year-old King himself announced he was flying immediately to the Congo despite the objections of his ministers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFRICA: Bumps in Freedom Road | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

ADMIRERS call it the most beautiful - house on the most beautiful site in the U.S. Any architect would envy the site and some might have suggestions for doing things differently (they usually do), but all would agree that Architect Nathaniel Owings has built himself a house that any man could be proud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: HOUSE IN BIG SUR | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

...newspapers that smolder indignantly over the transgressions of others, said Estabrook, might well take a good look at their own: "Recently, the press became very exercised about morality when Charles Van Doren put on his show of contrition. But our indignation would be better founded, and more credible, if we also managed to muster a few olfactory shudders about the garbage in our own backyard. Better yet, we might even try to clean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Self-Made Shudders | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

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