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...that the U.S. has been supplying to South Vietnamese forces since 1962: CN (chloroacetophenone), a fragrant-smelling tear gas that also irritates the skin, loses effectiveness in about three minutes; CS (o-chlorobenzalmalononi-trile), a pungent agent developed by the British, of all people, that stings the eyes, causes chest pains, choking and vomiting for up to 15 minutes; and DM (Adamsite), a peppery-smelling gas that causes diarrhea, chest and head pains, and lasts up to two hours...
...stood there in the Florida sunshine, watching his ballplayers work the winter kinks out of their muscles and smoothing imaginary wrinkles out of his pinstriped flannel shirt. "How does it fit, Johnny?" a friend asked. Johnny Keane grinned and pointed to the letters that spelled NEW YORK across his chest. "I hardly ever glance down any more," he said...
...staking out full-scale mock-ups in burlap. Chosen from among 150 potential candidates to become director in 1955, he today heads up a curatorial staff of 128, administers a budget of $4,800,000 ($1,300,000 provided by the city), has behind him a war chest of more than $1,000,000 available for new acquisitions...
...treasure chest of Islam's rarities, among them Mohammed's personal belongings, Topkapi was the scene of the crime in the current motion-picture thriller of the same name, which possibly inspired the recent theft of the Star of India from New York's American Museum of Natural History. It is no mean tribute to the Met that the men accused of the burglary first cased the Met-and gave...
...because I couldn't stand what other directors were doing. My first attempts," he admitted, "weren't so good. I didn't understand that the purpose of film-making is the study of the human being. The camera is pitiless. The director is like a surgeon--he opens the chest and shows everything...