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...Hamilton for two years. The apartment is a horror. In the bathroom, peeling paint drips leaking water from the toilet in the bathroom above; a film of water containing feces gleams dully on the floor. Roaches and other bugs swarm over the walls, the bathtub and sink. A rotting pipe in the corner has a dual purpose: it doubles as the children's "tree;" because Mary is afraid to allow the children outside, the youngsters' occasionally exercise by climbing the pipe when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WELFARE: Hotels Without Hope | 1/4/1971 | See Source »

...doors that weigh 87 tons each, the world's heaviest. Doors that size carry a heavy price: $300,000. Most equipment men concede that given enough time a burglar can crack any safe. He has a superweapon: the burning bar. Developed for demolition work, it is a long pipe filled with a magnesium compound that cuts through almost anything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BANKING: Security Is Golden | 1/4/1971 | See Source »

...Mounties and troops in battle dress were rushed in to encircle the stark apartment building at 10945 Des Recollets Avenue. The electricity was cut off. A nearby school was closed so that it could be used as a helicopter pad. Finally, two hours after the siege began, a lead pipe came flying out of one of the flat's windows. Said the message inside: "If you try anything (gas, guns, etc. . . .), M. J. Cross will be the first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Canada: End of a Bad Dream | 12/14/1970 | See Source »

...must have struck its first viewers as an incomprehensible assemblage of planes and lines, the viewer's eye is drawn deep into reality-captured first by the fragments of newsprint, then finding the stem and bowl of a glass, the-edge of a table, the curve of a pipe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Patrons and Roped Climbers | 12/14/1970 | See Source »

...debate to center. The Corporation, as always, remained insulated from this kind of grass-roots politics. The Treasurer was talking only to his friends on the Board of Directors at GM. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences had no authority at all, and when it finally did pipe up, alienated the other faculties in the University. The Faculty also proved too unwieldy to state a coherent rationale for their vote. The alumni were unable to respond, except in a haphazard poll taken by the Harvard Bulletin which had little effect. The Committee of Students and Community Relations (CSCR) probably studied...

Author: By Thomas Geoghegan, | Title: The Politics of Money | 12/3/1970 | See Source »

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