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...Irish Mist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 15, 1971 | 11/15/1971 | See Source »

...same fine mist fills the air, the same emerald pastures upholster the countryside and the same frothy brown Guinness flows freely in both Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic. But economic conditions in the two parts of that partitioned land are as dissimilar as shamrocks and shillelaghs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRELAND: High Hope in the South | 10/25/1971 | See Source »

...more romantic exhibition, "Some Recent Art" displays young American artists of the late 1960's. Larry Bell, currently one of ll Californian artists in London's Hayward Gallery, smokes plate glass with an opaque tea-like mist, and stands his box on a clear plexiglass base. Robert Irwin, another westerner, showing in Boston for the first time, projects lights on an acrylic semisphere to create an illusionistic, technological flower. David Diao and Philip Wofford texturize their canvases with drips and smudges in the Jackson Pollock tradition. Dan Christensen has painted a coil and glow like neon lights, and Larry Poons...

Author: By Meredith A. Palmer, | Title: Three for the Show | 10/9/1971 | See Source »

...drizzly overcast morning last week, a radio loudspeaker snapped out the order to attack. Through the stinging mist of CS pepper gas dropped by Viet Nam-style helicopters, yellow-clad troopers set off a barrage of rifle fire from atop 30-ft. prison walls. More than 500 officers?armed with shotguns, rifles, pistols and clubs ?charged into the crowded compound, shooting as they ran. Sporadic firing continued for nearly an hour. When the onesided battle was over, lawmen representing the State of New York had killed 26 convicts and nine of 38 hostages that the inmates had seized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: War at Attica: Was There No Other Way? | 9/27/1971 | See Source »

...practice that is far more serious -the inhaling of fumes from aerosol canisius becoming a fatal fad. Youngsters seeking a high spray the mist into a bag or other container and breathe deeply. About four deaths a month are now being recorded, according to the Food and Drug Administration. The gas propellants (usually fluorocarbons) in hundreds of different kinds of household sprays can kill quickly. They are carried by the blood from the lungs to the heart, where they interrupt normal cardiac rhythm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Aural High | 8/2/1971 | See Source »

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