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...Bombay, the biggest of India's dry cities, a dead animal in someone's front yard is a tipoff that a still is in operation: the odor of the decaying animal helps kill the smell of hops. Illegal brewing is said to be India's "busiest cottage industry," and every new tin roof is taken as evidence that its owner has supplemented his income by engaging in the liquor trade. India's gangsters, called goondas, glory in such names as The Black Panther, rub out their rivals not with tommy guns but with iron rods, bicycle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Looking Backward | 11/28/1960 | See Source »

Despite the mysterious odor that has plagued Lamont Library for some time, students were eagerly crowding the Library for the book sale yesterday. But concerned Library officials have already taken steps to investigate the smell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Students Crowd Lamont Book Sale As Officials Study Mysterious Odor | 11/16/1960 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Students Crowd Lamont Book Sale As Officials Study Mysterious Odor | 11/16/1960 | See Source »

According to Petri, the odor is most noticeable on wet, rainy days, and is especially bad on the top floors, where heat rises. Smoke from cigarettes is not a factor in the smell, he said, but bare feet are a possible cause...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Students Crowd Lamont Book Sale As Officials Study Mysterious Odor | 11/16/1960 | See Source »

Invigorated by the sweet smell of success, Jack Kennedy swept his campaign into a dizzying, whirlwind windup. For the first time, both candidates were now using the state of the economy as their basic issue, giving everyone some rest from Quemoy, Matsu and Cuba. Kennedy struck home with economic issues in hard-pressed areas of Pennsylvania and Illinois, and conjured up the spectre of an economy "slipping into its third recession in six years" in areas that were not hard-pressed but were beginning to wonder if they might be. By his own oomph-no less than by virtue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: The Windup | 11/7/1960 | See Source »

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