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...spray can about to go the way of the giant moa? For the past two years it has seemed so, because evidence has mounted that fluorocarbon, which is used as a propellant in numerous aerosol sprays, is depleting the ozone layer of the earth's atmosphere and increasing worldwide the danger of skin cancer from the sun's radiation. Last week three federal agencies announced a timetable for phasing out fluorocarbons from all "nonessential" uses-including deodorants, hair sprays and perfumes-by the spring...
...local café. Since a massive man hunt was launched last month for the assassins of Federal Prosecutor Siegfried Buback, West German police stations have been swamped with mistaken reports of sightings of three revolutionaries who are wanted for shooting Buback, his chauffeur and a bodyguard in a deadly spray of machine-gun fire...
...stirred up recently. The Saccharin Question has replaced the Cyclamate Debate, but the same anxieties over cholesterol count, caloric content and carcinogenic tendencies are being expressed. Widespread concern about our food and the need for that concern is evident in past and continuing controversies over mercury in fish, bug spray on tomatoes, too much sugar in baby food, bacterial contamination in canned and frozen foods, red dye in anything. The big swing towards "health foods" is an indicator of this consumer anxiety--every supermarket has its granola, three times as costly as the oatmeal on the next shelf. Good eating...
...tougher on us. They look at our clothes more closely than at a man's." ABC'S Osmer recalls the day in Washington when the wind kept messing up her hair, as well as her stand-up report; a male correspondent helpfully produced a can of hair spray from his attaché case...
...maintain order, Indian authorities have erected control towers so that they can survey the milling crowds and prevent disasters like the 1954 stampede in which 513 people died. They have ordered that all pilgrims must be inoculated against cholera, and 1,000 workers have been assigned just to spray antiseptics. Beggars have been banned. All day and all night blaring hymns on the loudspeaker system are interrupted by announcements about missing people (2,000 of them...