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...bomb threats.) Gomez himself gave the location of the TWA bomb that was found, warning that it was on Flight No. 7, which had just taken off from New York for Los Angeles. The plane hurried back to Kennedy Airport and was emptied; then two sniffer dogs trained to smell out explosives boarded the ship. It was their first live test, and one of them located the device almost immediately in a briefcase in the cockpit, only twelve minutes before it was due to go off. That was scary enough, but the explosion that ripped through the forward section...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Holding Up an Industry | 3/20/1972 | See Source »

...other questions seem to trouble Playboy readers-and the editor who selects which letters to print-far more. How much does one tip a blackjack dealer? What is malmsey wine? How does a fellow get-and get rid of-the crabs? Why do Japanese girls think American men smell bad? (Answer: carnivorous Americans eat ten times as much meat as Japanese and their odors prove...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Cupcake v. Sweet Tooth | 3/20/1972 | See Source »

...that she become a part-time professional prostitute and "mother" the family, she strikes a crafty financial bargain and accedes. Only the father is struck by a final spasm of dread: "She'll use us, she'll make use of us, I can tell you! I can smell it! ... She won't-be adaptable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Faces of Eve | 3/20/1972 | See Source »

...never liked submitting to editors, Miller has inexplicably allowed himself to fit a persona that fulfills the fantasies of the executive side-burned, Dingo-booted, Corvetted, Aqua-Velva'd hordes of Hefner's readers. After a life of reveling in dirt and the smell of things--black bread, smellie cunts, cheap wine, and pissoirs--Miller has been suddenly put out for pasteurization...

Author: By Timothy Carlson, | Title: Henry Miller's Swansong | 3/11/1972 | See Source »

...Young boys are not only taught to cut hair but to do it proudly. In one room a girl helps repair shoes; she is a particular example, according to Wang. Shoe repairing was a shameful trade in the old days, and girls "did not like the smell of the shoes. But they have come to realize that what smelled bad was the bourgeois thinking. What has the best smell is the thinking of Chairman Mao." The girl, about 14 or 15, keeps her head bent over the old shoe, pounding on the sole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Excursions in Mao's China | 3/6/1972 | See Source »

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