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...General Motors' retired Board Chairman Albert Bradley gazed at the sumptuous decor (2,000,000 real magnolia leaves, real 18th century tapestries), said with a grin: "Maybe I'll take all these decorations and ship them to our next Moto-rama." An elderly lady observed with a sniff that old Henry Ford "wouldn't have liked all this smoking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOCIETY: Minuet in 250 Gs | 1/4/1960 | See Source »

...with the paper goggles of yesteryear? No doubt the public will get tired before very long of having its nose tweaked. But if smelliemakers can provide more realistic smells and make more intelligent use of them, the scent track might offer rather more than meets the nose. Exhibitors can sniff secondary possibilities in "the olfactory dimension." One of them has suggested that if he could give his customers the smell of steam heat, he might be able to cut down his oil bill. Another plans to fill his theater, at tactful intervals, with the scent of buttered popcorn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Sock in the Nose | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

...show of courtesy. At first, he thought that "it is like a comedy," but by the time he landed in San Francisco, where huge mobs of pickets chased his taxiing airplane, and indeed swarmed to within lapel's reach, a shaken Mikoyan was ready to observe with a sniff that "in Russia we stand for freedom-not for hoodlums, but for freedom from hoodlums...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Muzhik Man | 1/19/1959 | See Source »

...before it was to be put aboard an R.A.F. jet Comet bound for Britain. The British have stationed 37,000 troops on Cyprus, which is smaller than Los Angeles County. In the eternal check against sabotage they go so far as to unscrew the caps of toothpaste tubes and sniff face powder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CYPRUS: Bitter Breakdown | 11/10/1958 | See Source »

...Lester Lanin. As Vag made his way towards the center of town he barely avoided colliding with a gentleman, weaving and listing rather badly to port, who had succeeded in losing dinner and a large portion of lunch over his shirt and sportcoat. A quick glance and regrettably long sniff sufficed to give Vag an impression of Brockton which nothing would ever remove...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Remember the Alamo | 10/1/1958 | See Source »

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