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...River across the road. "I don't know what to think about dioxin," said the 60-year-old construction worker. "I've lived here for 13 years. The birds are still flying, dogs are still running around." Then he bent over to turn up a strip of plywood, revealing a colony of worms in the dirt. "See there. If something was wrong, do you think they'd still be living...
...inserted into a vein in each of his arms. Into the left (on which Brooks had a tattoo reading I WAS BORN TO DIE) would come the drugs; the right catheter was a standby. Extending from each needle was a length of clear plastic tubing that ran through a plywood slat to the executioner's room next door, and there into a standard hospital bag of saline solution...
...father's 60-piece gun collection, lay in wait behind the garage door. Taking a back-up position, Deborah allegedly cradled a .30-cal. automatic carbine in the living room, in case their father escaped their first line of fire. The planning was unnecessary: Richard, aiming through the plywood garage door, hit his father with four pump-action blasts while his mother sat in horror...
...already practiced with our Nel-Spot pistols, blasting away from about 30 yds. at a large sheet of plywood. The Nel-Spots are as big and heavy as .45 automatics, and just as deadly looking, although actually they are not a great deal more dangerous than water pistols. They use a carbon-dioxide propellant cartridge to fire a paint-filled gelatin ball about the size of a child's marble-.68 cal., someone estimated. The Nelson Paint Co. of Iron Mountain, Mich., developed the pistol to give stockmen and foresters a tool for marking cattle or trees from...
...sculptural and the functional, with a healthy respect for the natural qualities of the wood. More over, pieces like the Danko Chair are light in weight and appearance and thus well suited to small apartments. With delight ful ingenuity, Danko is experimenting with folding chairs of molded plywood. One of the plies is a bendable, plastic material, so the chair folds without metal hinges...