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...door, looking up all the neighborhood Hossains, a job comparable to checking all the Joes on Chicago's South Side. When they came to the home of Politician Hossain Khatibi, once a prominent supporter of Mossadegh and now loudly in opposition, they were bothered by the heavy smell of perfume mixed with another, hard-to-place odor. Under questioning, the servants cracked: the other smell, which the perfume was intended to hide, was chloroform...
...That Cambridge ought to try to smell nice, at least around Harvard and clean its gutters. C. Thomas Linden...
...Last week Tara Singh and Bibi journeyed to a town near the Pakistan border to meet him. Bibi was afraid, for despite her careful Moslem upbringing, she had absorbed some Sikh prejudices. "If I go to a Moslem household," she cried, "I shall have to bear the offensive smell of tobacco and eat beef!" But Tara Singh loaded her with presents and new clothes and reminded her of her duty...
...White House, the magnolias were in full bloom and a fountain, surrounded by orange tulips, splashed beguilingly. Gardeners gave the lawn its first spring trim, and the smell of new-mown grass wafted through the open windows of Dwight Eisenhower's office. The President, like most Americans, responded to the beck of spring, tried to fit a little fun into the pressing routine of work. Last week...
...schizophrenic subject, they were able to get sharply defined brain waves of his sense of smell, indicating the intensity of the smell when they gave him a whiff of tincture of valerian. To their surprise, they found that whereas most sensory perceptions are transmitted by a frequency-modulation system, the sense of smell appears to work by amplitude modulation. In the oceans of the mind, it seems, there are both hidden waves and different types of current...