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...unwritten Island etiquette that lends itself to long-term co-existence, an existence that excludes off-Islanders. Aliens are not wise to the shallowness of water over there or the good fishing over here. Islanders know, and wouldn't be foolish enough to ground their boats, pick up poison ivy, or try to fillet an eel for supper...

Author: By Tom Lee, | Title: No Man Is a Vineyard | 9/18/1974 | See Source »

...from Athens, when a small coastal steamer brought the prisoners to the mainland. "On hand to greet them was a crowd of over 2,000 screaming, weeping Athenians," Byron reported. "As the ship was sighted over the horizon, the crowd roared, 'Greece's heroes! Long live democracy! Poison to the E.S.A. dogs!' When the prisoners-journalists, educators, politicians, actors-came down the cargo ramp, thousands of arms hugged them. Many of them were pale and undernourished. They were showered with flowers and smothered with kisses. The incredible demonstration went on undiminished for an hour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: I Am with You, Democracy Is with You | 8/5/1974 | See Source »

...hoped for. Supplementing its diet with varied and copious helpings of other insects and frogs, the cane toad may live for 40 years, grow to be eight inches long and three pounds in weight, produce up to 40,000 eggs a year, kill cats and dogs with a glandular poison it secretes, and upset the natural balance of some areas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The Bufo Plague | 8/5/1974 | See Source »

Without dope, Clapton drinks more. He feels, perhaps optimistically, that he sweats out the poison in performance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Return of Slowhand | 7/15/1974 | See Source »

...will be indispensable in all but a few 1975-model cars. The great majority of those cars will be fitted with catalytic converters that change noxious exhaust fumes to harmless gases. The lead in ordinary gasoline fouls the converters. Indeed, as little as two tanks of leaded gas will "poison" a converter; to replace it could cost the motorist up to $150. So automakers will equip their 1975 models with smaller-than-usual filler pipes leading into the gas tanks. Conventional gasoline nozzles will not fit into them; only special, smaller nozzles used to dispense unleaded gas will go inside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FUEL: The No-Lead Era | 6/24/1974 | See Source »

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