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...Auschwitz, begged Eichmann to ease up because he was receiving more human "freight" than he could conveniently kill. At Majdanek. the tall, tapering crematorium chimneys belched flame day and night until "a light dust lay over the whole city" of Lublin. At Auschwitz, even Eichmann noted that the smell of burning flesh "was not very pleasant.'' On May 29, 1942. Czech partisans hurled a grenade at Eichmann's boss. Reinhardt Heydrich, near Lidice. His spine was severed, and it took him six days to die. In revenge, all the men of Lidice were killed on the spot...
...watch through a window. On a dormitory roof a handful of students lift their wineglasses to toast the sunrise after an all-night question-and-answer session with a professor of aerodynamics. In a laboratory a computer expert works on a pet project: developing an artificial nose that can smell. Around the campus, research teams study the sonar system of the bat in flight, assemble atoms into crystals capable of withstanding extraordinary stress, inquire into "the feasibility of controlling manipulative devices molded after human arms and hands by means of a general-purpose computer." And at their switchboards operators tirelessly...
...modern world inevitably got around to attacking the most comforting, if not the most beautiful, of Parisian landmarks: the public urinals, known as vespasiann (after Emperor Vespasian. A.D. 9-79. who established a tax on such establishments, and when criticized for his source of revenue, replied: "Money has no smell."). In an earlier day. the vespasiennes were a mark of social progress for a neighborhood and a token of masculine democracy. They have also become a quaint sight for tourists and a source of endless jokes. Last week, as the Paris municipal council debated their continuance, the pissoirs...
Giving helpful hints to slatternl housewives about how to arouse sympa thy in a husband, she tells them to stay in bed until 4:30 p.m., then "put furniture polish behind your ears. It makes you smell tired when your husband comes home." W7hen her imagination flies, it sometimes lands in hyperbole that makes even Jonathan Winters seem summery by comparison. She sketches one woman who wears bronzed baby shoes for earrings...
...slippery white hills to the North invite a weekend escape from Cambridge. For a veteran skibum: memories of smell, of triply brilliant sun, of hills of sheer hair, of uncontrolled speed, clouded goggles, broken straps, sore ankles...