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...successful activities of some Harvard Student businessmen have in the past attracted the attention of local and national media, including. The New York Times and the Washington Pest...
...whorehouse and her father a Pullman porter, she always knew she wanted to sing. When Alberta was still a child, she ran away to Chicago, where, she had heard, singers could make $10 a week. She was helped by a friend of the family and, after making a pest of herself, was finally given a chance to sing at Dago Frank's, a saloon where prostitutes and pimps hung...
...expert. Chanslor telephoned Minnery, whom he refers to as Dr. Death, to ask about undetectable poisons, and they began a series of monthly conversations. One topic: D.D.V.P., which, Chanslor told Minnery, someone in Texas would sell him for $750. Minnery replied that D.D.V.P., which is used in Shell No-Pest insecticide strips, among other things, could easily be purchased for less than...
Chanslor apparently abandoned the No-Pest idea but asked to meet with Minnery in Toronto last April to talk about another poison, ricin, which is derived from the castor bean and is difficult to trace even when a doctor knows to look for it. By this time, says Minnery, he had concluded that the discussions were perhaps not entirely academic, and he alerted Ontario police, who in turn contacted Houston authorities. A tape recording was made of the Toronto meeting at which Chanslor paid $500 to have a capsule of ricin brought to him in Houston. During the Houston meeting...
...discovered that the mesquite tree is, if viewed by itself, in a certain light, capable of a surprising and almost Japanese loveliness. In sunlight, it offers a porous, feathering shade. Arriving in front of an expensive house in San Angelo, the mesquite completes a curious transition-from being a pest on the ranch to being a kind of artifact, an authenticating item of regional culture. Andy Warhol may have been working with the same general principle when he moved soup cans into art museums...