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...during voice votes, but switched in near panic when they were maneuvered into roll calls. Among the items restored by recorded vote: $50 million for grants to states for sewage-treatment plants. Any Congressman knows that a recorded vote against an important appropriation like that would raise an awful smell back home...
...party was also using a lot of Ban, a new underarm deodorant (and Godfrey sponsor) : "We're the first white people who've ever been seen in this part of the country, and these natives and animals are really getting a load of how nice white people smell." Godfrey was also introducing the natives to such civilized amenities as Blue Bonnet Margarine (sponsor): "We are crazy about it here; we're making blueberry pancakes and frying the liver from the wart hog with it. Everything tastes better with bloop blurp margarine...
...furnace for Republic Steel, American Viscose's rubber fiber Filastic. When Bristol-Myers' brushmaking subsidiary, Rubberset, could get no more hog bristles from Red China in 1950, A.D.L helped invent a chemical substitute from chicken feathers. Its special taste laboratory has aided dozens of U.S. foodmakers. Its smell laboratory, which developed special chemicals to help American espionage agents outwit enemy bloodhounds in wartime, has advised industry on everything from salad dressing to air conditioning...
...wife, a former Martha Graham dancer, decided to go to New York six years ago. Says Kovarsky: "We had been cut off from the art world for ten years. I felt the need of something refreshing. New York cooks very fast, and it cooks nicely. It has a good smell. What was yesterday is gone. Yesterday's car isn't enough. Today demands more. I will take a lot from here...
Riding easily behind far-ranging dogs in a mellow Alabama quail meadow, the mixed gallery of millionaires in fancy dress and farmers in ripped dungarees seemed remarkably lenient. No one winced when a dog, quivering at the smell of quail, froze into a sloppy point or broke before his handler's signal...