Word: poisons
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When Eric learns that Jurgens' officially deceased first wife Ophélie (Francoise Hardy) is still-alive and sequestered in the castle, the family decides to dispose of him forthwith. During one eventful night, Eric survives attempts to poison him, gas him, drug him and freeze him to death...
...peel. Cans now come in thin tin or aluminum instead of hefty old tin plate, and in many cases have evolved into containers of paper, plastic or fiber foil. The aerosol can, once limited to a few household uses, now dispenses everything from cake icing to lotion for poison...
...calcium. But they shouldn't have strontium 90 or cesium 137. These things come from atomic bombs, and they're radioactive. They make you die. Do you know what people finally did? They got together and signed a nuclear test ban treaty. And then the radioactive poison started to go away. But now there's a man who wants to be President of the United States, and he doesn't like this treaty. He fought against it. He even voted against it. He wants to go on testing more bombs. His name is Barry Goldwater...
...helped James Bond narrowly escape death by drowning, poison, bullets, knives, giant squids, falling cliffs, steam, rocket exhaust, auto wreck, buzz saw, scorpion bite, lethal plants, suffocation and surfeit of women. But there was no one to reciprocate for Ian Fleming, last week, in his apartment at Sandwich, where he was holidaying after reading proof on his latest, and last, James Bond adventure, The Man With the Golden Gun. He suffered a second heart attack, and four hours after he reached a hospital at Canterbury, Ian Fleming died. He had already spoken his own epitaph. "Oh," he said...
...activation analysis (N.A.A.), which subjects specimens under study to irradiation with neutrons in a nuclear reactor. The fine details of the specimens' chemical composition can then be deduced from the pattern of radiation they give off. So sensitive is the technique that it can detect a thimbleful of poison dissolved in ten tank cars of water...