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...Mothers, you must keep your children under control! They must die with dignity!" Over the shrieks of the young and the sound of gunshots boomed the baritone voice of Jim Jones, exhorting his followers to spray cyanide deep into the throats of infants and any adults who resisted his order to die. This haunting echo of the Jonestown horror was discovered last week on one of hundreds of tape recordings discovered by the FBI and Guyanese officials at the Peoples Temple compound in Guyana. The tape was on a recording machine that had apparently been turned on just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Eerie Echoes, Missing Money | 12/18/1978 | See Source »

Playing the back nine first this time, Fitzgibbons plugged his wedges smack on the flagstick. Yet he continued to spray his drives while Dales started with six, four, six, four, six, four...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Swingin' in the South | 12/14/1978 | See Source »

...have every reason to expect. About one-third of all their sales are rung up between Thanksgiving and Christmas, when men indulge their women and women indulge themselves. Tis the season when department-store cosmetics counters are jammed and the air redolent of thousands of mixed scents as women spray themselves with a bit of this and a touch of that. Men's eyes are often struck by the sight of a woman daubing lipstick onto her hand to get a better idea of the shade?and leaving five or six stripes of what looks like war paint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cosmetics: Kiss and Sell | 12/11/1978 | See Source »

...plan apparently was to attach a battery to the wires which would spring the rat traps which would activate the fire extinguishers which would spray paint the field through hoses arranged to form a yellow "Y," Joyce said...

Author: By Burton F. Jablin, | Title: Pranksters Set Stadium Trap...Almost | 11/17/1978 | See Source »

Another problem is whether farmers can keep up the rate of technological innovation that has made U.S. agriculture the productivity wonder of the world. So far, agricultural tinkerers are continuing to develop new techniques and devices. One of them: a herbicide sprayer with a receiver that catches any spray that does not hit a plant and recycles it into the pump, economizing on spray and preventing pollution of the ground. Another innovation is an irrigation system that covers even more ground than a center-pivot machine; it is a diesel-powered contraption that pushes a boom a half mile long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New American Farmer | 11/6/1978 | See Source »

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