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...pilots try to gain altitude by rising with one thermal, then diving to another near by. They may be detected by clouds, airborne debris, hawks or odors. "Thermals pick up the odor of the ground where they form," says Lloyd Licher of the Soaring Society of America. "If you smell cow manure or garbage at 10,000 ft., you can assume you're onto something." By using thermals alone, Hans-Werner Grosse, a German, set the world's distance record of 907.7 miles last year, spanning Germany and France...
PORTLAND, ORE.: President Nixon still has a few loyalists in this city (pop. 390,000), such as President John Howard, 51, of Lewis and Clark College, who says of the press and Congress: "They are like sharks. When they smell blood, they go mad." Another is J. Richard Nokes, 58, managing editor of the Oregonian, who declares: "A lynch-mob atmosphere has developed in the Washington press corps and in Congress. Now it has spread through the country." But majority sentiment in Portland is illustrated by the fact that Nokes' own newspaper receives 40 times as many anti-Nixon...
...barren ridge, we passed an unshaven Israeli artillery sergeant sitting in a ditch eating sardines and fresh tomatoes. "Good thing, this cease-fire," he said. "Just so it doesn't cease." On a parallel road to the south, a grisly Israeli soldier flagged us down. The smell of corpses was heavy in the air. Just beyond us was Kilometer 101, where Israeli and Egyptian generals had met under the protective cloak of the U.N. An Israeli officer told us: "Both sides want this cease-fire to work. The other day an Egyptian general turned over to us some...
Fair Harvard! The smell of your locker room's strong And the Stadium's old and decayed, But your record is good, you have proved you belong With the best of the boys you have played. Princeton's Tiger has come with its fangs and claws bared To dismember our hopes and our dreams. Meet the challenge fair Harvard, it's hereby declared: Triumph! Tear them apart at the seams...
...Sheherazade nightclub, the new Metropole Hotel and the Bank of Alexandria are scarred by bomb blasts. We were escorted into this canal-side city by Egyptian officers. They kicked down the door of the former British officers' club and led us through a billiards room where the stale smell of dust and decay hung over the neatly racked cues and a picture of the late President Nasser. The rules of the game of snooker in fine curlicued print hung on the wall. The balcony opened onto a littered street where electric lines dangled from telephone poles...