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Truck Driver Michael Sinai of West Mifflin was waiting for a mild day this week to load his wife and children into the family car and drive around the western Pennsylvania countryside. They were hoping to run across the smell of skunk. To Andrea Sinai, 8, this was very important. She has never smelled a skunk-in fact, until recently, she had never smelled anything. Andrea was a rare medical case, a baby born with a bony obstruction blocking both nostrils...
Douglas, who will deliver the third and final Godkin lecture tonight, said that "one has not had to be psychic to smell the odor of evil which has pervaded Washington hotel lobbies during the last six years." He then listed practices which would be condemned under what he called "a new code of ethical propriety...
...smell of old wars was never far away from peaceful Konrad Adenauer as, Baedeker in hand, he took the trail to the sights of London and Oxford.* In Westminster Abbey, Adenauer paused uneasily beside the tomb of Britain's Unknown Soldier, said nothing. At the British Museum he watched workmen repairing the great dome. "A German bomb hit us," explained a museum official. "We're still cleaning up." As Adenauer arrived at No. 10 Downing Street, left-wing pickets shouted: "Heil Hitler!" "No arms for Germans...
...shape.* When the cloud reached its full height and the dust began to settle, the troops were checked for radioactivity and climbed back into their trucks. The mushroom top broke away and passed under the sun, blotting it out. The trucks rolled forward into the haze and the sour smell of burned cacti and Joshua trees...
...face of the levee. Sweating, grunting workers raise extra barriers of sandbags just ahead of the rising river. Sand-boils, bubbles, slides and settles, one after another, threaten to wipe out all efforts in one great gush of doom. The glare of fusees mixes menacingly with the sweet smell of floating gasoline. Debris swims silently downstream to clog up on the bridges, finally carry them away. A privy goes by, "pivoting slowly like a model in a fashion parade." Fleming conveys the protracted melodrama of a bold, restless river in flood without once raising his voice adjectivally or using...