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...smell had filled the room...
That was Clyde Raymond Beatty, king of the beasts, the greatest animal trainer in the world (TIME cover, March 29, 1937). "I want people to see me close-close enough to smell the cats," he would explain. "When I'm in there, I don't know if there are a hundred or a thousand in the audience. It doesn't matter. I'll give them anything; I'll give them everything." And twice a day, ten months a year for more than four decades, he did, with a mixture that was as much danger...
...OLFACTRONICS is a fancy word for a new science of smell being developed by researchers at Illinois Institute of Technology. As they see it, men should be able to smell as well as dogs-that is, tell people apart by each individual's distinct chemical signature. So far, the researchers have found that human odors can characterize a person's age, sex, race, diet, health and general area of residence. Though still highly experimental, telltale smells could become an important tool. Under contract to the Federal Aviation Agency, the Illinois team is now working on a machine...
...persuade the French to oust the Chinese again. Ho knew that France would be an easier adversary to deal with. Besides, there was the age-old hatred and fear of the Chinese. As Ho told his "United Front" allies who urged cooperation with the Chinese: "I prefer to smell French merde for five years than smell the Chinese variety for the rest of my life." In 1946, Ho headed for Paris to negotiate Chinese withdrawal with the government of Premier Georges Bidault, and also to win full independence for his Viet Minh regime. All charm and chatter, Ho reigned...
Some of Lehrer's numbers were old standbys updated ("Back to good old Dixie, where the jasmine and the tear gas smell jes' fine"). Others, like Pollution ("The breakfast garbage that you throw into the Bay / They drink at lunch in San Jose"), were written by Lehrer for TV's That Was the Week That...