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...Harvard Police--both uniformed officers and detectives--carry Smith and Wesson .38 caliber revolvers...

Author: By L. JOSEPH Garcia, | Title: Police Blotter | 10/24/1981 | See Source »

...Johnson to arrive, when the talk turned to the frantic trendiness of U.S. society. Go to a cocktail party, someone said, and everybody's talking about manipulating the money market, or parachute jumping, or that group therapy where everybody sits nude in a big tub of Wesson Oil. Yeah, said another citizen, there you are in your clean bowling shirt and they all want to go to the roller disco. "People think they have to be able to discuss everything, enjoy everything. They have an irrational impulse to be interesting." (The quotation was so good Troise later used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In California: The Life and Death of a Good Joke | 3/30/1981 | See Source »

...middle of the game, an Islamic Guard burst in shouting "Freeze!" He ordered us to stop our game. I first thought that this was just another harassment raid, a routine feature of my work. But a cold Smith & Wesson revolver in my ribs dispelled that notion. "Upstairs," he said, "and don't talk or gesture to anyone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Is to Happen to Me Tonight? | 2/16/1981 | See Source »

...broke into Persian: "Believe me, it is in your interest for me not to come back." I suddenly remembered the snub-nosed Smith & Wesson that I had strapped on my back and a grenade I carried in my coat pocket. I was determined not to be captured alive. The immigration official would be my first target. I looked squarely at him and said: "I like this side better. I am sick and tired of what is happening in Iran, and of so-called officials who believe they have supreme power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Is to Happen to Me Tonight? | 2/16/1981 | See Source »

Growing consumer consciousness about health has helped the market. Flower oil costs 10% to 15% more than oil made from corn or soybeans, but its cholesterol content is lower; it has 70% polyunsaturated fats, vs. about 55% for corn oil. Hunt-Wesson in September began national distribution of a flower oil named Sunlite. Procter & Gamble is selling a blend of flower and soybean oil called Puritan, and Lever Brothers is marketing Promise, a part-flower margarine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Flower Power On the Plains | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

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