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Bhave has collected gifts amounting to 4,600,000 acres, but his disciples can point to only 213,000 acres actually redistributed. About half this amount has come from landlords in Bihar state, who have given Bhave large tracts of barren land, and thereby achieved a spurious odor of sanctity, while continuing to exploit tenants on their good land. Criticism of the muddled organization of Bhave's Bhoodan (land-gift) movement has steadily mounted. Cracked Bombay Governor Harekrushna Mahtab: "Gandhi wished to abolish poverty; Bhoodan merely distributes...
...Eugenie for the world's most comely ichthyologist: Dr. Eugenie (Lady with a Spear} Clark. Yet on closer inspection, the dugong is no pinup ,girl. Both male and female dugongs have sharp, coarse whiskers and give off what is delicately described as "a strong, distinct, aromatic dugong odor." Clams & Cucumbers. The dugong shows signs of becoming extinct. Hundreds were slaughtered in the 18705 after an Australian firm offered $9 a gallon for dugong oil; many more were killed and eaten in World War II, when-Japanese garrisons in the South Pacific convinced themselves that dugong meat tastes like...
...narrow margin, and bringing curious tales about the "fossils of the future." Rhino & Cures. The biggest of the threatened animals is the Indian rhinoceros, of which only a few hundred survive. A creature that only an animal man could love, it has the temper of a bald hornet, the odor of cattle-boat bilge water and the bodily build of a Sherman tank...
...Dimethyl sulfide. once an evil-smelling waste left behind in kraft-papermaking, is being used to give an odor to natural gas, which otherwise could seep through a house without being detected. Scientists think they may also be able to use the chemical as a starting material for making a permanent antifreeze...
...caused the death of two other sick, emaciated U.S. P.W.s. Gallagher, said one of the witnesses, thought the two inmates were "smelling up the room," so he threw them outside into the 40-below cold "like a bartender bouncing a drunk." Most of the witnesses themselves helped recreate the odor of P.W. Camp 5 on placid Governors Island. Did you not protest, or try to stop it? they were asked. "No, sir,'' came hesitant replies, "I was afraid to get thrown out myself ... I couldn't help myself ... I didn't want to freeze to death...