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...there no leaders who will at least acknowledge this powder keg over which we live...
...small packets borne by an "ant army" of couriers. From the lawless wilds of the Golden Triangle, dried poppy extract travels by backpack, bicycle, mule and even army trucks to crude labs, some in jungles, some in Southeast Asia's sprawling Chinatowns. There chemists refine the caky black powder into two grades of heroin: No. 3, the 40%-50% pure "brown sugar" favored for smoking, and fluffy white No. 4, 90% pure "stuff" for needle addicts. The dope is ferried to Europe by air, ingeniously cached in all sorts of objects-mah-jongg tiles, false-bottom golf bags, hollowed...
After trouncing the Big Red, Columbia's powder keg offense seems ready to erupt after remaining quiescent throughout midseason. Folowing the first three games of the season against Harvard, Lafayette and Penn, the backfield had churned for 667 yards, and Columbia was running ninth in the voting for the Lambert Trophy...
Maximum Penalty. Kepone, a lethal white powder that was widely used against ants, roaches and potato bugs, was developed by Allied in 1951; in 1974 Allied turned the manufacturing of Kepone over to a newly formed Hopewell firm called Life Science Products Co., which was owned by two former Allied staffers and got both its equipment and raw material from Allied. Judge Merhige dismissed as unproved a prosecution charge that Life Science was an Allied "captive," set up merely to spare the big chemical company the bother of complying with the pollution laws. But the judge's sentence suggested...
Humphrey, a beloved party figure whose final chance to reach the top had been brushed aside in the Carter sweep, enjoyed the convention's most intense display of affection. Resplendent in a youthful powder-blue suit, the man who would have been elected President in 1968 if he had been afforded even half the degree of party unity that Carter now enjoys, received a cheering, whistling ovation. Maine's Ed Muskie, passed over finally for the vice presidency, was warmly applauded as well...