Word: toxication
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...otherwise be, also stand to make them somewhat less "crashworthy." To dress up the cabin, the manufacturers have put in nylon and Dacron seat covers, soundproofing and rugs; the stuff may be pleasing to the passengers' eyes and pay off in ticket sales, but it can generate black, toxic fumes in a fire. To save weight, and make easy changes in the cabin configuration, seats are not moored to the floor as firmly as possible. Stewardess training is sometimes more of a brief charm school than a careful safety course. The lines have also handled safety drills and demonstrations...
...barrages of propaganda against the high cost of living, food shortages, the draft, and demand wage increases and better jobs. In rural areas, the protests should center on allied air and artillery strikes and "the plan to herd people with their unhusked rice into concentration centers and to use toxic chemicals in the massacre of our compatriots." Then there is the subtler approach, such as paying calls on the wives of Vietnamese troops "to inquire about the health of their husbands" and thus undermine civilian morale. Or, when an air attack is over, one might transport "the most typical victim...
...scientists contended that since the use of chemical and biological weapons is directed against a country's civilian population "it does not serve our national interest, and is immoral." They defined chemical weapons as those toxic to men, animals, and plants...
Since World War II, says Thorwald, the problem of poisons has gotten dangerously out of hand. Hundreds of toxic agents are now available to millions as pesticides, cleansers, barbiturates and tranquilizers, and many cannot at present be detected in a cadaver. The mod ern world, in Thorwald's opinion, has become a poisoner's paradise in which do-it-yourself-death is on sale at the nearest supermarket-in the handy-dandy family size...
...filth," says John W. Gardner, the new Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. U.S. rivers and streams, like the muddy Missouri, used to be contaminated with nothing worse than silt, some salt, and the acids from mines. Now they are garbage dumps. Raw sewage, scrap paper, ammonia compounds, toxic chemicals, pesticides, oil and grease balls as big as a human fist-these are the unsavory contents of thousands of miles of U.S. waterways...