Word: plasticizers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ministrations of ordinary medicine. At the dowsing convention headquarters in the Danville town hall, piles of books on the occult are offered for sale, from the works of Edgar Cayce to studies of UFOs and the Bermuda Triangle. Dowsing buffs can also buy every kind of tool, from little plastic rods (at $1 a pair) to miraculous electronic black boxes (price: $65) that purportedly "discharge toxic vibrations from your mind, emotions and etheric body." Explains Raymond Willey, the society's secretary and a retired General Electric engineer: "Dowsing for water is only the bottom rung of the ladder...
...pieces of blackened scrap larger than two feet long or wide. An exception was an aircraft sign saying WELCOME. Near by two scorched dogs lay dead on their backs. All the coroner's crews could do was pick up parts of bodies and put them into yellow plastic bags. Said Deputy San Diego County Coroner Warren Chambers: "It may be many days before we will be able to match parts or even determine how many bodies we have...
...closing early these days, and Tommy's never seems right if you want to nurse your wounds over a 3 a.m. cup of coffee. Except for Brighams, which even freshmen have stopped going to after the first two weeks of school, there is no place in the Square plastic and peaceful enough to serve as an escape from any situation that has gotten a little too hairy to deal with at some ungodly hour of the morning...
...missionary doctor whose practice embraced 200,000 Brazilian villagers along the Amazon River; of injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident; in Columbus, Ohio. Tupper first witnessed the misery of South America's poor in 1960 as a U.S. Navy medic and soon dropped plans for a career in plastic surgery to join the priesthood. He first made his Amazonian rounds in a motorboat, but later ministered from a 55-ton refurbished ferryboat named the Esperanqa (Portuguese for Hope...
...least seven times in the past two months, a thief has broken into the district attorney's office in Sequoyah County, Okla., sniffed out the marijuana cache kept in plastic evidence bags, and made off with some of the weed. The intruder has never been seen, but police think they have a pretty accurate description: stands 3 in. tall, weighs about an ounce, has slick brown hair, beady little eyes and a long tail, is prone to staggering, even on four feet...