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Thoughtful gardeners should choose the least toxic control available; if it is a poison, they should buy the smallest quantity necessary. Above all, says Cry California, swear off DDT and other chlorinated hydrocarbons. The ecosystem you save will be your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pesticides: Gardening Without DDT | 8/8/1969 | See Source »

...eras, discovers that she shares certain affinities with Linda. From that point, it is not long before Martha is voluntarily undergoing harrowing experiments in order to determine the limits of her consciousness. As the novel closes, she is stranded off the Scottish coast, England having been decimated by poison gas and radioactivity. She has also become a member of a telepathic community whose members speak to each other across great distance through the power of their own shared thoughts. In doing so, Martha attains a perspective that permits her to see, in the midst of the chaos, a terrible beauty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Will to (Still) Believe | 8/5/1969 | See Source »

...reporter and playwright, Miss Armstrong turned mistress of the macabre with the 1942 publication of Lay On, Mac Duff; she went on to write more than a score of chillers, and in 1957 won the Mystery Writers of America's Edgar Allan Poe Award for A Dram of Poison. "Maybe we are all potential murderers," she once said, "and reading stories about that crime releases us in some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Aug. 1, 1969 | 8/1/1969 | See Source »

German officials eventually confirmed the Dutch finding and claimed that probably no more than 300 lbs. of the chemical were involved. Investigators said that the Höchst plant was not directly at fault. They speculated that the poison was dumped, intentionally or not, from a barge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Europe: The Rancid Rhine | 7/4/1969 | See Source »

...opened to Ojukwu, even though we offer to pay cash for help, and he doesn't have an economy. Where is the morality of this world? We remove the word hate. We remove the word victory. We remove the word enemy. What we get back is poison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: An Interview with General Gowon | 7/4/1969 | See Source »

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