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...kill any earthly bugs. In any event, the report says, there is little chance that organisms entrapped within solid structures in the spacecraft could work their way free. Thus it is important only to kill microorganisms on the exposed surfaces of the spacecraft either by brief heating or by poison gas, neither of which would be harmful to conventional spacecraft systems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Putting Heat on Voyager | 4/28/1967 | See Source »

...afternoon speech before the Radcliffe Graduate Society, Robert Saudek '32, ex-television producer and an author of the Carnegie Commission report on educational television, "threw a poison dart and shed a tear" over commercial TV, saying that it has little hope of becoming anything but a "citadel of the non-think...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Susskind Attacks TV's Mediocrity; Public Networks May Be Solution | 4/26/1967 | See Source »

...poison in a ring. March, madman, cross...

Author: By Carroll Moulton, | Title: ROMAN RUINS IN AMERICA | 4/21/1967 | See Source »

...Poison the Well. In fighting the '68 campaign on such slippery issues as war, bureaucracy and personality, Johnson will almost certainly have Hubert Humphrey as his running mate. The President has been leaning on Hubert more and more in recent months. Since Jan. 1, Humphrey has logged 19,700 miles within the U.S., and he has minced no words with party functionaries. To those who complain about Johnson, he says: "Don't poison the well you're going to be drinking from next year." To liberals who have parted ways with the President over Viet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Politics: The Temper of the Times | 4/14/1967 | See Source »

...faculty expert, who asked not to be identified, said a substance resembling what in large quantities is the "poison" in plants like marijuana and which heating or boiling breaks down to a psycho-active agent might possibly be present in ivy bark. He cautioned, however, that the practice was unknown to him and he was not aware of any research on the plant...

Author: By George H. Rosen, | Title: Ivy - Heads | 4/1/1967 | See Source »

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