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...Horses Smell Better? Secaucus, at the heart of a vast trash-filled marsh known, euphemistically, as the Meadows, is bounded by the ever dirty Hackensack River and two sloughy creeks. Most of its small, bedraggled residential section is huddled on a hill, which rises, like a precarious reef from a mounting sea, above a tide of pigs. The citizens of Secaucus on their hill rarely sniff the full exhalation of the piggeries; but the town's neighbors do, and so do millions of travelers who pass through by rail or over the New Jersey Turnpike. For years the authorities...
...Krajewski. "Doris Duke did it in Somerville. They tie perfume bottles on the pigs, but the average farmer can't afford such luxury." Furthermore, said Krajewski, it wasn't just Secaucus and it wasn't just pigs. The industrial areas near the Pulaski Skyway, he said, smell like embalming fluid: "Linden has assorted smells from paint and oil... There are chemical and acid smells, and Kopper's coke with its terrible smoke. Out in Manville, there is the asbestos smell . . . And in Newark, you should smell the markets in the morning. No one complains about them...
Fate of the World? Slowly, through Chicago's hot, traffic-jammed streets, the herd of delegates converged on the convention hall, the International Amphitheater, which swam in the pungent smell from the surrounding stockyards. The delegates were a serious bunch. They seemed to realize that their party and their nation had come to a crossroads...
...vineyards of Cabernardi. They bedded down in mule stalls, took walks along dark tunnels lit only by their battery-fed cap lamps, and relaxed with Communist papers sent down from the shaft head. On the surface, their families camped forlornly near -barbed-wire enclosures redolent with the rotten-egg smell of sulphur furnaces. A constant stream of baskets containing fish, cheese, soup and meat passed through the gate to be sent below. With the baskets went an occasional note. "If you don't come up, I'll go away forever," wrote one wife. Her husband scrambled...
Scented Plastics. In New York, Plastron Inc. put on the market flower-scented plastic shower and window curtains. Developed by Monsanto Chemical Co., the scents are blended in while the plastics are being made, are guaranteed to smell like roses, carnations or cedar for several months. Price: $1.98 for the shower curtain, $3.98 to $4.49 for curtain sets...