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Shot? Horrid smell." And later: "Today did not set the tent but put up in Gov[ernmen]t shimbek. Zanzibari in charge-very obliging. Met ripe pineapple for the first time. On the road today passed a skeleton tied up to a post. Also white man's grave-no name. Heap of stones in the form of a cross...
...beat of music in discos across the country, too many dancers are moving frenetically these days to the throb of their own physical highs. For them, Saturday night fever is heightened by a tiny amber bottle openly - and legally - held to the nose and sniffed. The contents, isobutyl nitrite, smell a bit like burning rubber, and the effect is intense and brief - lightheadedness and a sudden rush that makes the heart race and the body quiver. But the chemical's aftereffects can be most unpleasant: headaches, nausea, heart attacks and, with chronic use, possible liver and lung damage...
...portly Minister of Health Raj Narain was solicitously waiting for him at the airport. As the leader stepped out into the 102° summer sizzle of New Delhi, Narain held out a scented handkerchief. Brushing the offer aside, Desai snapped: "You put perfume here, but you spread a bad smell about the party elsewhere." With that retort the Prime Minister triggered a crisis in his 16-month-old government that led to the resignation of two Cabinet ministers, fractured the fragile unity of the ruling Janata Party and-unwittingly-cleared the way for a possible political comeback by his predecessor...
JAMAICA RAILROAD STATION in Queens in New York City is a depressing place to read a newspaper. Not surprising, really: railroad stations are, as a rule, depressing places in which to read, what with all that railroad-regulation decaying Georgian brick and the stale urine smell drifting from the tunnels where the winos sleep, and the annoying fat bookies who stand next to you in the crush and elbow you in the lower back every time you try to turn off the sports page. But Jamaica Station is special...
...orphanage of central government General Tang En-po stains memory with its smell. It stank worse than anything else I have ever smelled. Even the escorting officer could not stand the odor and, holding his handkerchief to his nose, asked to be excused. Abandoned babies were inserted four to a crib. Those who could not fit were simply laid on the straw. They smelled of baby vomit and baby shit, and when they were dead, they were cleaned...