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...word is out that while we were away, administrators and scientists found that Harvard's Ivy also momentarily blinds oncoming motorists, causing countless accidents; drips poison from its leaves on hapless schoolchildren who happen to walk too near, and communicates herpes from room to room of the buildings on which it grows...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: An Agenda for the Year | 9/17/1982 | See Source »

...word is out that while we were away, administrators and scientists found that Harvard's ivy also momentarily blinds oncoming motorists, causing countless accidents: drips poison from its leaves on hapless schoolchildren who happen to walk too near, and communicates herpes from room to room of the buildings on which it grows...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: An Agenda for the Year | 9/16/1982 | See Source »

...word is out that while we were away, administrators and scientists found that Harvard's ivy also momentarily blinds oncoming motorists, causing countless accidents; drips poison from its leaves on hapless schoolchildren who happen to walk too near, and communicates herpes from room to room of the buildings on which it grows...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: An Agenda for the Year | 9/13/1982 | See Source »

...been sent to watch him, Haiducu followed through on an elaborate plan to kill Goma. During a cocktail party he used a specially made fountain pen to squirt a toxic chemical into the writer's drink. But a French agent " accidentally" jostled Goma's arm, spilling the poison. Since Haiducu could not fail on his second mission, the attack on Tanase had to be even more convincing. This time French operatives played the part of hired thugs and faked a kidnaping. Mitterrand's press-conference plea added the crowning touch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Espionage: Rumanian Sting | 9/13/1982 | See Source »

...asked Prosecutor Brad Beers on crossexamination, had not Mrs. Chanslor first told investigators that she did not ask her husband to get her poison and that she had no intention of committing suicide? She conceded that she had. A prosecution witness also testified that at the Toronto meeting Chanslor said, "This bitch is really getting to me." He denied it, and the tape was fuzzy. The tape, however, clearly caught him saying that suicide was an "impossibility. We talked about it, and then the person backed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Poison Plot | 8/16/1982 | See Source »

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