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...relationship was the base of security that allowed her to deal with the inconstancy of the outside world, a shelter from her own intensity. When she died, he decided to edit her memoirs; and sometimes, Darroch says, Philip would go upstairs "where Ottoline's clothes still hung, her unique scent clinging to them, and he would gently lift the silks and velvets in an attempt to get in touch with her again...
...this country, as the scent of new money and power spreads a lot of changes are taking place, and more are expected. The big-oil boys (petropower, says Butz) who have had their way m Washington for so long, now face a challenge from agri-power. No new farm bloc has formed on the Hill because the new food equation embraces everyone from Wall Street bankers to the hired hand. But if the various interests in food can find common ground, the pressure that such a lobby could bring would dwarf anything seen in the capital...
...third period opened, everyone sensed a rout. The Crimson followed the scent, as they continued to completely dominate the action. By now the visiting club had been run ragged by their stronger, faster opponents...
Odysseys and Pilgrims' Progresses lead to that knowledge; so, if real, does every coming of age. In the struggle to deploy one's gifts humanely there is often no guidance or material reward, only that scent of tragedy which always attends the decision to find out the truth about oneself, whatever the cost. But we are not so tone-deaf to the classics, I hope, as to have forgotten that in tragedy there is real life of a kind we seldom see at Harvard...
Bringing Madison Avenue to Moscow, a Soviet perfume factory created a new scent called "EPAS" (for Experimental Project Apollo-Soyuz); it will sell for $50.75 a bottle in Russia and $10 a bottle in the U.S. Smiles one Soviet official: "In the U.S. it will be called cologne, but here we'll call it perfume." Moscow's Yava cigarette factory is producing a new brand of smokes, "Soyuz-Apollo," that will also be sold in the U.S. Why smoke Soyuz-Apollos? Says Yava Manager Nikolai Kashtanov: "It is a great honor to pay tribute to Soviet-American cooperation...