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Headstrong and impulsive, Aries are likely to race across lawns and trample KEEP OFF THE GRASS signs. Geminis bark a lot. Libras sniff inquisitively under tables and into closets. Leos chase animals while Scorpios pester for second helpings. And if that doesn't sound like your sign of the zodiac, not to worry. Seer Jeane Dixon, famous and wealthy from casting people, has now gone to the dogs. "Dogs, after all," insists Dixon in her new book, Horoscopes for Dogs, "live under the same stars that we do." Take her Teddy, a mutt of indiscriminate breed. Dixon obviously doesn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 14, 1979 | 5/14/1979 | See Source »

...well-dressed man walks nervously up and down, a few steps at a time, waiting for a train. He knows he is a target and is plainly scared. The elevator descends. The man sees six teen-age blacks sweeping toward him like a pack of wolves. First they literally sniff him up and down, then they urinate in a circle around him. They reek of the peppermint smell of angel dust, and they are looking for somebody to blow away, like this turkey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New York: The Magnificent 13 | 5/7/1979 | See Source »

...French, Ho Chi Minh was offered the support of Mao Tse-tung's advancing Communist army, which might have meant quick, joint victory. Ho declined. Later, with pithy logic, he explained why he had preferred to fight a protracted guerrilla war on his own: "It is better to sniff the French dung for a while than to eat China's all our lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A War of Angry Cousins | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

...shock comes when Johnny Ramone breaks into a lead riff. It's not that spectacular--Jerry Garcia has nothing to fear yet--but it's there and it's not bad. The entire band has come a long way from their first albums, when songs like "I Want to Sniff Some Glue" sounded like the band had been playing music for about two weeks, which wasn...

Author: By Thomas M. Levenson, | Title: No Sleeping Pill | 2/10/1979 | See Source »

...students have been recruited for their snouts. For $1, they sniff a gauze-covered black jar containing either treated manure or the real thing straight from the pig. The odor is rated on a scale of one to ten, ten being malodorous enough to blow off your socks. No students are getting rich on the deal. Experts hold that the nose gets desensitized after too much exposure to such powerful smells. The daily limit: nine sniffs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: The Nose Knows | 9/25/1978 | See Source »

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