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...INSECT SPRAY (DDT): wash out the stomach, give cathartic of sodium sulfate...
...ethyl alcohol): wash out the stomach with warm water or sodium bicarbonate, give coffee as a stimulant...
...signed by Correspondent George Bookman, who had spent days poking around the far-flung empire of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. While awaiting a final interview with Teamsters' President Dave Beck, Bookman doubled over in pain, next evening underwent an appendectomy. He came out of the sodium pentathol with a bad case of hiccups, but nonetheless dictated to his wife Janet, a former United Press reporter. His file arrived in New York apace with those of Washington Correspondents Marshall Berger and James Truitt, Seattle Bureau Chief Robert Schulman and Seattle Correspondent Russell Sackett. All, and much other information, went...
...Egypt, where development has been hard hit by Nasser's foreign policy, some A.D.L. plans have borne fruit. A plan to use caustic soda in projected paper and rayon plants uncovered a highly important use for a byproduct chlorine. The chlorine, which seemed useless, can go into making sodium pentachlorophenate-a chemical that kills the river-borne parasites causing bilharziasis, a disease chronic in Egypt for centuries...
...prisoner calmly: "Thank you." A doctor strapped the long tube of a stethoscope to Abbott's chest. Abbott sat quietly, bound to the execution chair. The warden and other officials left the chamber, bolted the door. Three minutes later the executioner pulled a lever, and 16 pellets of sodium cyanide dropped into a crock of sulphuric acid beneath Abbott's chair. The deadly fumes began to rise...