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...those who would like to pay anything for a chance to give life to himself and others, but that actually "he would never pay more than a reasonable price." It is not enough, for by then he is a successful career man in science (he made poison gas during World War II), and his real life lies stillborn behind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Human Geometry | 10/13/1967 | See Source »

...state poll tax. Next day, he returned to Walden Pond to write his famous essay on Civil Disobedience. Ralph Waldo Emerson warned that "the U.S. will conquer Mexico, but it will be as the man swallows the arsenic, which brings him down in turn. Mexico will poison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: DIVIDED WE STAND: The Unpopularity of U.S. Wars | 10/6/1967 | See Source »

...children died, local authorities impounded all local milk, and a tragic, but minor, episode seemed closed. It was not; Tijuana's children kept dying for no apparent cause. By week's end 17 youngsters were dead-and more than 300 others had been treated for poisoning at local hospitals. Lab tests turned up traces of a deadly pesticide called parathion in the tissues of victims, and the poison was soon traced to bread from their tables. Tijuana police closed all bakeries and other stores selling bread; sound trucks even warned against eating tortillas. The almost certain source...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mexico: The Staff of Death | 10/6/1967 | See Source »

Amer was kept under house arrest at his villa in the fashionable Cairo sub urb of Giza, where last week some Egyptian officers came to question him further. As the Egyptians tell it, Amer apparently swallowed a "large amount of poison pills" after they arrived, but was rushed to a hospital by the officers before they could become fatal. Back home the next day, he left his guards and entered a bathroom, where he swallowed more poison pills that he had concealed beneath an adhesive plaster on his body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Egypt: Tough Times for Nasser | 9/22/1967 | See Source »

...buddy warns Aaron: "They beat 'em up first, and then gang bang 'em, man! Make queens of 'em forever." Aaron is duly raped by a giant Negro senior citizen of this very bad boys' town. No queen, though, Aaron gets revenge by putting rat poison in the clam chowder. Unfortunately, he kills his best pal as well as his persecutor. But he no longer cares; he would rather earn kingly status, even if the price is the gas chamber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Status & Sodomy | 9/8/1967 | See Source »

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