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...sight? Was it a sound? Was it a scent? It was all these, and more. It was a national state of mind. For suddenly the 1962 political campaigns were in full swing. With primaries in Massachusetts and conventions in New York, the nominees had been chosen in nearly all the nation's major races. Now the candidates jostled and shouted. Now challenges for TV debates fluttered through the air like autumn leaves. Now came the inevitable pictures of politicians with Indians-or factory workers, or coal miners, or bathing beauties. Now the members of Congress, grinding toward adjournment, looked...
Just as it dominates the U.S. chocolate market, the Hershey Corp.-and the ever-present sweet scent of its products-dominates the town of Hershey, in the undulating Pennsylvania Dutch country. Town and company alike were confected by patriarchal Milton S. Hershey, an ambitious farmboy who learned to make taffies that he called "French Secrets," went broke in three candy businesses before he built Hershey Chocolate in 1903 on the cornfields surrounding the house in which he was born. Exploiting a turn-of-the-century switch in U.S. tastes from other candies to chocolate, Milton Hershey...
Four more shopping days 'til Christmas--and no present yet for Aunt Edna, eh? It's always the same: she can't read, hates fresh fruit, and thinks scent is sinful. You gave her a cut-glass rose vase last year and a hand-painted four-in-hand the year before. Well, how about a record for once? We've heard 'em all. Come closer; listen closely...
...film company, hired tutors and drama coaches, the best scenarists, set designers, and directors to help shape his Galatea. For the opening of her first film, Cecilia of the Pink Roses, in 1918, he had the theater ventilating system loaded with attar of roses, bathing the audience in florid scent. His newspapers, of course, hailed the new star's birth with eight-color superlatives in reviews that ran under eight-column headlines...
...stuffed chunks of a freshly killed, 7-ft. sting ray into a meat grinder, let the bait drift down-current; soon he had five sharks gliding gracefully around him. A 7-ft. dusky shark broke slowly away from his companions and hovered near the skindiver. Suddenly, maddened by the scent of ground ray, the shark flicked his powerful tail and bore down on Slaughter, jaws agape. The shark killer grasped his powerhead's shaft and drove the weapon against the onrushing shark's head, shattering its brain...