Word: paints
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hopkins University estimates that it takes only two or three paint chips a day, over a three-month period, to cause severe illness and perhaps induce a life-threatening coma...
Only Three a Day. Painter's colic is rare now that the hazard of paints containing lead is recognized in industry. Lead poisoning in children-especially from age two to about five-persists, because even when they are not hungry, they will put anything into their mouths, including chips of paint that have flaked off window sills or radiators in old houses. Dr. J. Julian Chisolm Jr. of Johns
...been 20 years since manufacturers stopped putting lead into paint intended for interior use, and ten years since New York City prohibited such use. But in countless old houses, there may be a dozen layers of dried-out lead paint, still dangerous, underneath whatever lead-free paint has been applied since...
...either case, before a child goes home, the house should be deleaded by removing all old paint from surfaces within four feet of the floor, and any peeling paint at whatever height...
...else. The three Harvard graduates who will gather in the sheckles from this adventure into Madison Avenue conjure up one Ivy stereotype after another, blow on it with their windy wit, and leave it. In the face of unsubtle attempts to infuse rewrites of admissions booklets with local color--paint it whitewash--all of the eight Ivy League schools come out remarkably the same...