Word: fragrant
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...They can dine at the King's Arms, where costumed waiters slightly self-consciously ask the guests if they want their napkins tied around their necks, 18th century style. Best of all, they can wander beside ox-drawn carts along quiet, auto-free streets, amble through dozens of fragrant, carefully tended gardens, gaze over fields of maize or grazing sheep without seeing a telephone pole or TV aerial...
...symbolized male impeccability and the kind of ageless elegance everyone dreams of attaining. But Gary wasn't having any-until last week, when he agreed to join the board of directors of Rayette-Fabergé. Grant, who will serve as a product and corporate consultant, jumped into the fragrant fray because he sees cosmetics as a means of unifying the sexes. Says Gary: "Why should they try to separate us so? We should all just smell well and enjoy ourselves more...
...escorted by Cambodia's Prince Norodom Sihanouk, all smiles and a torrent of French. An exotically garbed palace guard held a giant green parasol over their heads to screen them from the afternoon sun, and 200 schoolgirls in bright green sampots, the traditional skirts, sprinkled her path with fragrant rose and jasmine petals, which they carried in silver bowls-the Buddhist way, explained Sihanouk, of honoring very special guests...
Across the huge land, almost equal in size to France, Germany, Spain and Italy combined, great factories are springing up everywhere-in Hamadan, once the capital of the Aryan Medes; in Tabriz, where Marco Polo was entertained by the mongol Khans; in Isfahan, whose fragrant splendors led the Arabs to call it "One Half of the World." The night sky flares bright in the oilfields of Abadan, where the Zoroastrians built fire temples over ducts of natural gas. A railroad is stretching out across the treacherous Dasht-i-Kavir Desert, once traversed only by spice caravans from the Orient...
...manor himself, who will, in the fashion of a hard-pressed British peer, show off the ten rooms, five baths and four fireplaces that make up his new pad, and take them for a stroll down Farkleberry Trail. For no extra charge, visitors also get a whiff of a fragrant political issue in the making...