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Police reports said the fumes resulted from "exhaust released on the roof of Mallinckrodt...[which] can occur when building humidity is very high...
High humidity intensifies odors. The exhaust system of the building carries those odors to people outside the building, Long said...
...director, Arthur Hiller, says he and seven other crew members pushed a station wagon along a sidewalk so that the camera operator could film O'Neal and McGraw walking in the rain while preventing exhaust from appearing in the picture...
Then there's the Holocaust. In a 1990 newspaper column, Buchanan didn't hesitate to say that people who survived the Nazi death camps suffer from "group fantasies of martyrdom." He even tried his hand at Holocaust revisionism, arguing that diesel-engine exhaust could not have killed so many Jews at Treblinka. Hitler? A mass murderer, Buchanan admits in a 1977 piece, but a man of "great courage" and "a soldier's soldier." If it matters to you that you don't leave the impression that you are carrying a torch for the Fuhrer, that's a judgment you frame...
...even this year's giddy sales numbers don't exhaust the good news. Cars are so complex and expensive to build these days, in part because of the demands of fuel economy, that there is not much profit left except in the luxury models. Trucks and truckoids, even with the power windows, CD players and pleated leather seats that suburban buyers are asking for, are still simple enough, many with rear-wheel drive and huge, iron power plants outmoded 20 years ago, to return $4,000 to $6,000 in profit per vehicle. And so far, buyers have absorbed sizable...