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Returning to civilization, which for the Stanford students means flying a Navy C-130 to Christchurch. New Zealand, Gail says he was first struck by "a wave of odor...

Author: By Peter J. Howe, | Title: Antarctica: Students Call it Home | 4/20/1983 | See Source »

...acid caused a nauseous odor, making the house uninhabitable for days and will cost more than $1000 to clean up fraternity officials said...

Author: By Robert M. Neer, | Title: April Fools | 4/13/1983 | See Source »

...teammate is having an affair with another's wife, several are involved in municipal corruption, and, of course, there is the standard drunk, the standard failure and the standard terminal illness to grapple with) appear not as home truths but mere dramatic inventions. Finally a stale, locker-room odor begins to arise from a work that has nothing more on its mind than yet another attack on small-town bourgeois values...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Coaching Failure | 12/20/1982 | See Source »

...that "a disgruntled employee in the production chain" was the more likely culprit. Whatever the method and motive, the killer clearly knew what he was doing. In each case, the red half of the contaminated capsule was discolored and slightly swollen. When opened, the capsules emitted the telltale almond odor of cyanide; the poison was present in quantities thousands of times the usual fatal dose. Says Police Chief Carl Sostak of Winfield, Ill., home of one victim: "Apparently a very sophisticated and very malicious person is at large who had to spend a lot of time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poison Madness in the Midwest | 10/11/1982 | See Source »

...makes not even passing reference to that explosive event. In fact, the only intrusion of 60s turbulence into Atlas' world takes place, amusingly, at the Signet, when Allen Ginsberg lights up a joint at a black-tie literary dinner. (I suddenly caught a whiff of a pungent, acrid odor that seemed...well, odd in these circumstances...

Author: By Michael W. Miller, | Title: Living in the Past | 9/27/1982 | See Source »

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