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...Strikes. "They were very polite," said the helicopter pilot. "All they wanted was to be treated as soldiers according to their rank. But we didn't think very much about anything. The whole place was as silent as a graveyard, and when the wind kicked up, we could smell the death around...
Once, Richardson hauled Murchison out of an evening poker game to investigate a wildcat well he had heard about. They raced to the closely guarded site and, by bluffing guards, got near enough to smell oil. Next day they spent $50,000 buying leases in the area. Twenty-four hours later, they sold the leases...
...conductor and narrator of this particular trip through The Tunnel of Love is a slap-happy cartoon editor named Dick. He sometimes wanders off the track to a dream cottage and holds imaginary conversations with beautiful women: "I like . . . deep woods and the smell of pine," one beauty murmurs. "I love pine." "I love yew," whispers Dick...
...Plotter. From a dingy room in the British sector reeking with the smell of cooking, 60-year-old Dr. Trushnovich ran the NTS in Germany, an organization of White Russians and their sympathizers. Like NTS, Dr. Trushnovich was neofascist. But his NTS members hate Russia's Red rulers with cold ferocity, devote every waking hour to plotting the overthrow of the Soviet regime. Born near Trieste, Trushnovich fought with the White Russians against the Red army, helped the Nazis against Russia in World War II, and after the war founded a relief camp for Russian escapees. Trushnovich...
Monro said that students receiving small financial grants under the Council program are usually deserving of them, but that "inevitably the committee gets fooled sometime." On each list of Grants-in-Aid beneficiaries, Monro added, he's noticed some students who are not needy but merely "can smell a buck a mile away...