Word: smell
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...significant record of prosecuting polluters. A graduate of Harvard Law School ('60), he got his first whiff of the task as a deputy attorney general in his home state, when he investigated a tomato cannery for emitting such terrible stinks that townspeople suffered from "olfactory fatigue" and could smell nothing. He went on to file suits against numerous corporations and municipalities for their pollution practices. In 1963 he drafted the Indiana Air Pollution Control Act, which imposed strict standards on local governments and empowered the state to enforce them...
...effort to find the smell's origin, the Department of Buildings and Grounds recently completed a study of Lamont's ventilation system. Results of the investigation were sent yesterday in a letter to John J. Gallen, Senior Assistant in the Lamont Library...
Despite the mysterious odor that has plagued Lamont Library for sometime, students were eagerly crowding the Library for the book sale yesterday. But concerned Library officials have already taken steps to investigate the smell...
According to Petri, the odor is most noticeable on wet, rainy days, and is especially bad on the top floors, where the heat rises. Smoke from cigarettes is not a factor in the smell, he said, but bare feet are a possible cause...
...child he was fastidious. 'He once said he didn't like to ride the school bus,' a cousin remembers, 'because the other children didn't smell good.'" So begins an intriguing account of the early years of Richard Nixon in this week's LIFE by Staff Writer Donald Jackson, who spent weeks searching out and interviewing the President's relatives, boyhood friends and old acquaintances. From an early age, Jackson writes, Nixon was "a serious child; he was never a giggler." Nixon's mother recalled: "Most boys go through a mischievous...