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...bomb threat received by the FBI. It coincided with a review of security prompted by the October truck bombing in Beirut and the terrorist blast that left a gaping hole in a wall at the U.S. Capitol. Among the steps taken for presidential security: guard dogs were assigned to sniff all cars and trucks for explosives as they pass through the 8½-ft. steel gates. The sand-filled trucks are only temporary. The Secret Service is studying the possibility of installing fortified gates that will serve as a more permanent, and more decorative, defense against potential car bombs...
...Nations employee who wrote an exhaustive index of the Commission's exhibits, has said that the Commission's report "pronounces Oswald guilty," while the hearings and exhibits "create a reasonable doubt of Oswald's guilt and even a powerful presumption of his complete innocence." Her goal was not to sniff out and expose conspiracy theories, but rather to question whether the FBI and the Commission acted in good faith...
...many who endured the initial shock may have suffocated to death. Further aggravating rescue efforts, the narrow dirt road that links Muratbagi to the outside world was blocked for hours by landslides. By the time rescue workers from the Swiss Disaster Relief brought in 15 specially trained dogs to sniff out more victims, most of those unearthed had stopped breathing...
Snobbery today tends to be fragmented. The snobbery based on knowledge is particularly specialized. A person who is otherwise completely unpretending and unimpressive may do some reading and become, for example, a wine snob; he will swirl and sniff and smell the cork and send bottles back and otherwise make himself obnoxious on that one subject. Another person may take up, say, chocolate, and be able to discourse absurdly for an hour or two on the merits of Kron over Godiva. This kind of snobbery based upon a narrow but thorough trove of expertise is a bit depressing, because...
...gives his check (which includes a $1.50 service charge) to an attendant. The store, a 37,000-sq.-ft. former manufacturing plant located near two of Los Angeles' busiest freeways, can handle 300 cars an hour. Doubtless there will still be shoppers who want to sniff a fish or squeeze an avocado, so the old-fashioned neighborhood grocery will be around a while...