Word: poisonings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...A.M.A. complained that advertisers are increasingly making exaggerated claims for the safety of continuous vaporizers that spread poison to kill insects and other pests, and reiterated a warning: lindane, the chemical commonly used in these gadgets, "is retained in the brain and liver and may cause serious and lasting damage to the central nervous system." Exempted from the charge: hand-operated aerosol bombs...
...most respected and influential magazine in Germany, helped spark a renaissance in German intellectual life, which was stamped out by the Nazis. Read largely by intellectuals, government officials, students and university professors, the Communists have made reading the magazine a criminal offense and denounced it as a "real intellectual poison brew...
...press conference and made a handsome apology to Chasanow, restoring him to duty with back pay. A Navy statement said: "The pattern of Mr. Chasanow's life portrays an above-average loyal American citizen." The Navy, Smith said, had been a "little naive" in swallowing everything that poison-tongue informants had said about Chasanow, who had made enemies (as well as scores of friends) in the intense local politics of Greenbelt, Md., where he lives. Said Chasanow: "It seems like I woke up from a bad dream. The sun is shining. The birds are singing. The flowers are blooming...
...Poison in the Water. After a four-day march. Pick was sitting on a rock one day near a crumbling ridge when he noticed that his Scintillometer was not registering properly. He thought it was out of order. But when he walked away from the rock the needle moved again. Then the light dawned. Says he: "I was sitting on a solid chunk of uranium ore." Pick, figuring it had rolled down from the cliff above him, scrambled up the rock face, chipping off pieces of rock as he went: "It was all beautiful yellow-orange-colored ore." He staked...
...would soon have funds for not one but two rest rooms. To some Woodstock's gaiety seemed too close to complacency-none of the big names had produced works for the occasion that were important, or even particularly adventurous. Grumbled Abstract Sculptor Herman Cherry: "Cocktail parties . . . flourish like poison ivy in this vicinity." But most Woodstock artists find that oil and Martinis mix well enough, and that art need not be great to be worth while...