Word: aerosols
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Merv seemed lusterless after dark; his whoopee all seemed to come from an aerosol can that went poof. In the latest ratings, Carson was more securely than ever the nation's midnight idol, commanding a healthy 37% of the audience, compared with a measly 15% for Griffin. ABC's Joey Bishop is third, with 12%. The remaining 36% of the viewers are watching old movies and other shows scheduled by independent channels and network-affiliated holdouts...
...reduce the algae's bacterial food supply, the scientists fumigated the grotto with an aerosol of powerful antibiotics (penicillin, streptomycin and kanamycin). Next, they tackled Palmellococcus itself. They found that a spray of formaldehyde mixed with detergent not only killed the algae-which gradually lost their color-but had no ill effect on the paintings themselves...
...innocently, many were equipped with motorcycle crash helmets, gas masks (purchasable at $4.98 in North Side army-navy surplus stores), bail money and anti-Mace unguents. A handful of hard-liners in the "violence bag" also carried golf balls studded with spikes, javelins made of snow-fence slats, aerosol cans full of caustic oven-cleaning fluids, ice picks, bricks, bottles, and clay tiles sharpened to points that would have satisfied a Cro-Magnon bear hunter...
...York Hilton an hour ahead of time to avoid some 3,000 pickets. Most were moderates, but some, spearheaded by the Students for a Democratic Society and a handful of radicals from the Trotskyite-Maoist Progressive Labor Party, came equipped with plastic bags of cow's blood and aerosol cans with orange paint. They were looking for trouble, and more than 1,000 New York policemen, though generally restrained, finally gave it to them. Thirty-four demonstrators were arrested, a dozen injured...
...widespread is the use of quick-freeze aerosol spray for freaking out? No one really knows-yet. Hippies and college students reportedly have turned to it as a legal turn-on (the labels on the cans read "harmless and non-toxic"). At Yale, a few students have been inhaling the gas since it was introduced last month by collegians returning from the West Coast. In Medford, at least 200 high school students were using it. Literally scared sick by the McCuan tragedy, scores of them fled to family doctors and hospitals, complaining of aches, stabbing chest pains and sleeplessness. Most...