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...least one person resists all such interpretations. "Psychoanalysts," Gould's father complained to TIME'S Patsy Beckert, "those guys poison the mind. Elliott says to me now, 'Why didn't you tell me about sex?' Well, who told me about sex? He says, 'I could have been a fag!' But I say not with that background. Not with the nice summers he spent in the mountains." Bernie himself is happier now that he has divorced Elliott's mother and married his Sweet Sixteen sweetheart, whom he met again after she had been widowed...
...blank and hopeless faces of wheel-chaired rows of idle pensioners in a nursing home; where I see old men fishing for carp at the city sewage outfall (the fish gather there to eat) because they can afford no other source of protein, early death by slow poison seems a delightful relief by comparison...
What has given everyone the jitters is a colorless, almost odorless nerve gas coded GB, able to kill or incapacitate human beings within seconds. It blocks the enzyme the body uses to destroy one of its own chemical nerve-signal transmitters that becomes poisonous after serving its function. This affects control of the nervous system and ultimately causes the body to poison itself. This week, if all goes according to plan, the Army will begin shipping 12,540 rockets armed with GB from depots in Anniston, Ala., and Blue Grass, Ky., to Sunny Point arsenal in North Carolina. There...
TEAR GAS, like the Holy Spirit, moves in mysterious ways. Riot police passed the choking gas throughout the Common sector of West Cambridge Wednesday night; thin clouds of poison floated up Massachusetts Avenue. One unsuspecting summer school student almost started speaking in tongues when he attempted to cross the untrafficked thoroughfare: abruptly, he stopped, whirled about, doubled over momentarily, then retreated in a crouched position while violently rubbing his eyes...
...virtually every poison in jet-age aerial combat, however, there is an antidote. Though the Israeli-developed devices could not cope with the improved missiles, U.S. equipment has a larger number of frequencies. Washington has released more than a hundred ECM pods to Israel, each consisting of a bomblike container 10 ft. long and weighing about 300 lbs., which fits under the wing of a Phantom like an auxiliary fuel tank. Inside each pod are three canisters containing "noisemakers," or jammers, that radiate electromagnetic waves in the same frequencies used by the acquisition, tracking and terminal guidance systems...