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...year-old Student Tiru Venkatam sat down to compose a letter to his father: "I failed my examination for the second time," he wrote. "I cannot be of any use to my family. I have decided to end my life." A few hours later, Tiru Venkatam was dead of poison...
...case of an atomic bombing, or a mishap at an atomic plant, no one would be able to say just when it would be safe to send in rescue squads. Said Dr. Newell: "This is like saying you don't know whether a teaspoonful or tumblerful of poison will make a man sick...
...week for the young. The school year was over almost everywhere; armies of cherub-like little fiends immediately began skinning knees, wading through poison ivy and falling out of trees. The 1949 crop of high school and college graduates walked out into a world that was getting colder for job-hunters all the time...
Mosquitoes & Poison Ivy. Did the years ahead, then, offer no contentment? Certainly not, said Novelist John P. Marquand at Massachusetts' Governor Dummer Academy-and a good thing, too. "I have observed," said he, "a number of superficially contented men and women . . . and I maintain they are dangerous. Personally, I am glad to say there are a lot of things today with which I am not contented ... I am not contented with the road system in Newbury . . . nor do I like the control of mosquitoes ... I am not contented with the Boston & Maine Railroad . . . nor do I like...
...months ago, Marshal Yen Hsi-shan, commander of besieged Taiyuan, kept 500 vials of poison in his office, swearing that he and his staff would kill themselves if the Communists took the city (TIME, Nov. 15). Last week the Reds held Taiyuan and the Marshal, unpoisoned and unbowed, was Premier of China...