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...Cambridge Fire Department recommended that powder extinguishers--the only type chemically designed to stop grease fires--be installed in the Harvard kitchens...
Some of it is even funny. One saboteur recently turned loose a box of live cockroaches in Republican headquarters at Manhattan's Roosevelt Hotel. Lyndon Johnson aides reportedly poured itching powder down the backs of demonstrators carrying anti-L.B.J. signs at his rallies-forcing them to drop their boards and scratch. Democrat Leo Marshall, seeking a seat on Pennsylvania's New Castle County Council in 1966, was the victim of someone who sent a flatbed truck carrying a black band and black semi-nude go-go girls into a conservative white ethnic neighborhood, noisily urging his election...
...dance, heraldry and the brewing of mead, a potent alcoholic beverage fermented from honey. All the skills come together at tournaments-staged several times a year by the society's four "kingdoms" -where the guildists hawk medieval wares, including such products as "dragon's blood," a fine powder used in magic potions...
...letter bombs mailed to Israeli officials on four continents last week were far more sophisticated, difficult to detect and dangerous for even an expert to make. In some of those intercepted and analyzed, the explosive was a powder, probably TNT; in others the charges were two thin strips of plastique explosive scarcely five inches long. Developed in World War II, plastique is a mixture of Hexogen, TNT and rubber compound that can be molded into any shape and is safe and stable until detonated. It can even be rolled sheet-thin to look like typewriter paper, written on, rolled...
...started me riding." Leslie explained. "He said, 'Let's go riding motorcycles,' and I got hooked." Leslie wants to see more women race motocross, but says "they've got to get serious." She refuses to race "powder-puff," insisting that she compete against men; but so far she hasn't won a race...