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Just before the door to the octagonal, green gas chamber in California's San Quentin prison clanged shut, the condemned man twisted toward the witnesses. Straining against the eight thick straps that bound him to a chair, he cried: "I am Jesus Christ!" Moments later, a pellet of potassium cyanide was dropped into a solution of dilute sulfuric acid, and blowers began sucking the lethal gas upward. Within twelve minutes, Aaron Mitchell, 37, who was convicted of slaying a Sacramento policeman during a 1963 tavern holdup, was dead. He was the first man to be executed in California...
...promising, and several communities are trying the addition of dicalcium phosphate to cereals and bread. Even the most skeptical investigators at the National Institute of Dental Research now believe that decay may be arrested in its earliest stages by painting the teeth with a solution containing tricalcium phosphate and potassium fluoride...
...power company that switched to heavy industry in order to survive when Italy nationalized power in 1962. The resulting giant, which Italians are already calling "the supercolossus," would have united sales of about $1.5 billion, would control 70% of Italy's chemical production and much of its pyrite, potassium, bauxite and glass output. At the news that the government had tentatively approved the merger and that it would shortly be submitted for stockholder approval, Edison's stock jumped 66 points and Montecatini's eight points on the Milan exchange...
...green emblem on the baby's diaper assays potassium chlorate . . . which implicates the gunpowder blender. Egad, the whole thing begins to jell. The Undershaft payroll goes out tomorrow . . . Then they'll knock the place over within 24 hours?" said Dr. Watson...
...drastic reduction in recent years in the death rate from cholera has resulted mainly from the method that Dr. Phillips' team has devised to maintain the victims' balance of fluids and those all-important electrolytes, the salts of sodium and potassium. But even that Battle is not yet won. Johns Hopkins' Dr. Craig K. Wallace told the International Congress of Pediatrics in Tokyo hat the death rate is almost seven times as high among children under nine as among adults, because their fluid loss is proportionately greater...