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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...resemblance ends there. With a range of from 12 ft. to 15 ft., the Mace's chemical stream (a tear-gas concentrate called phenylchloromethylketone) affects nerve ends and produces an instant shock and a choking sensation that incapacitate its victim as effectively as a blow on the head or a hand on the throat. Yet the chemical wears off after about 30 minutes, leaving no lasting aftereffects. In New Haven, Police Chief Francis McManus found it "highly effective" in quelling the mob. The Mace has also been use ful in everyday police work. In the year it has been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Riots: Gentle Persuasion | 9/1/1967 | See Source »

Whether by Peking's design or impotence, the Communists in Hong Kong also continued to make trouble. Some 40 Chinese pushed across the border at Lowu and menaced the British customs house; Gurkha troops finally drove them back to Maoland with tear gas. And a leading anti-Communist radio commentator, Lam Bun, died of burns after Maoists disguised as street repairmen flagged his car down, doused him with gasoline and set him afire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China: Ultimatum & Anarchy | 9/1/1967 | See Source »

...that Huntington Hartford, 56, can do to tear himself away from the phone these days. On one line, he has been calling several of the nation's loftier cultural institutions, trying to get them to accept as a gift his $5,000,000 Gallery of Modern Arton Manhattan's Columbus Circle. The star-crossed A. & P. heir first sought to benefact Columbia and Fordham universities, which hastened to decline when they got a load of the museum's $3,800,000 mortgage and $500,000 yearly upkeep; now he hopes that some philanthropic soul like Uncle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 1, 1967 | 9/1/1967 | See Source »

...into the social machine. From Philly to Frisco scenes like this one take place: Impatient businessman: "Excuse me." Salesgirl blushes and puts down her copy. "I'm terribly sorry. I usually read only during lunch hour, but this movie star just got breast cancer and I just couldn't tear my self away...." The effect on the economy could be devastating...

Author: By Anne DE Saint phalle, | Title: A Secretary's Schmaltz | 8/22/1967 | See Source »

...National opened an investigation, Semenenko promptly agreed to turn the fee over to the bank because, said an associate, "it had become an issue and because he has the bank's best interests at heart." First National, which still might not get its money if Semenenko were to tear up his contract with Warner, nevertheless seemed satisfied. President Richard Hill said that the investigation "found nothing to violate bank policies, and the matter is closed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Banking: The $1,000,000 Misunderstanding | 8/18/1967 | See Source »

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