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Rising during the House debate last week on the $1.6 billion military construction bill, Illinois Republican Leslie Arends wrinkled his long nose at the scent of one particular section. What he objected to was some finicky fine print giving Congress veto power over Defense Department efforts to get out of such nonmilitary ventures as operating ice-cream plants, laundries, dry-cleaning plants...
...very private use, there will be a single crystal flagon of perfume concocted with the help of the most sensitive nostrils in France as an "homage from the French Perfumers to Her Majesty Elizabeth II." "We have destroyed the formula," explained a spokesman for the perfumers. "This scent [strongly reminiscent of jasmine] will never be sold on the market...
...siege of heavy rain and a scent-bedeviling east wind, many dogs got confused, but one liver-and-white pointer bitch felt right at home on Maytag's acres. Bouncing eagerly through the sedge grass. Just Rite Roz flushed her first covey 15 minutes after her handler, Druggist Bill Swift of Selma, Ala., let her go. Swift's whistled commands moved Roz through the course as though she were on a long leash-a series of short blasts sent her roaming, a long blast brought her back. Coolly, she ignored the occasional roar of a shotgun fired...
...Well," muttered one British reporter in the midst of this unruffled scene of royal business-as-usual, "that wasn't much of a reunion." But back home and in the U.S., the headlines were redolent with the heady scent of orange blossoms dispelling the noisome rumors of rift. "After 124 days and 5 hours, they are TOGETHER AGAIN," blared Britain's Empire News. "THA-A-T'S BETTER," purred London's Sunday Pictorial...
...royal canine family. They were smart enough to herd sheep, swift enough to run down deer, sturdy enough to tangle with leopards. Their broad, high-set hips lent unusual agility to their natural speed. They have been called "gaze hounds" because they spotted their prey by sight, not scent. British officers back from Asian duty told tales of untrained Afghan hounds serving as sentries at frontier forts...