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...except in the Democratic Party could a boy named Abe Ribicoff be nominated for governor in this state." In a TV appearance the week before the election, Ribicoff made an American Dream speech in which he recalled how, as a boy, he would "walk through fields heavy with the smell of summer growth, lie under a tree and dream . . . that any boy, through hard work, honesty and integrity, could aspire to any position in American life and reach any heights regardless of race, creed or color." This appeal had its effect. More effective, perhaps, was the fact that Lodge...
...news conference with nine or ten Detroit reporters. At the doorway Wilson told a story about the western sheriff whose friends smeared Limburger cheese in his beard while he slept. Wakening, he sniffed (Wilson sniffed to demonstrate) and rushed outdoors, but could not get away from the smell. Baffled, he went back in and announced: "Boy, the whole world stinks." That's like the Democratic Party, said Wilson, still accusing the Republicans of the kind of mess in Washington made under the former Administrations...
...workers. Huge portraits of Mao Tse-tung, Stalin and Malenkov glowered from the walls of the Forbidden City, and soldiers armed with automatic rifles were everywhere ("to guard against invasion from Formosa," the Chinese explained). The Socialist delegates from Britain marveled at the disappearance of filth and the smell of human refuse from the streets, wondered aloud at the absence of beggars, exclaimed over the universal refusal to take...
...nerves and blood vessels of animals, but their hottest emotions are always ready to leap to the aid of their coldest calculations. In a jealous woman, for example, Colette sees "the development of a sense of hearing, virtuosity of vision, speed and silence of steps, the sense of smell directed towards the trace left behind by hair, by a perfumed powder, the passage of an indiscreetly happy person-all this recalls very closely the exercises of soldiers on a campaign, and the knowledge of poachers...
...efforts to scour away some of this blackness, Jessie used to gather mountaineer women into meetings. She would suddenly stand up and snap, "I smell sin," then launch into a sermon reeking with brimstone. One of Gatineau's few doctors recalls: "These ignorant women didn't know how Jessie had found them out, and were terrified when she started telling them the agonies of hellfire. Next day my office would be full of hysterical women about to have a breakdown...