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Stink at Interchanges. Saturdays are not so bad; the cruising sniffer can drive all the way downtown without seeing the needle push above 40 p.p.m. During weekday rush hours, though, it sometimes hits a peak of 120 p.p.m. "It is most exciting," says Haagen-Smit. "You get behind another car, and the pointer goes way up, especially where you have a slowdown of traffic." Top readings come at the nightmarish interchanges, where curling roadways tangle like spaghetti on a fork and hundreds of car engines pant in frustration. "Tunnels and depressions concentrate the carbon monoxide," says the professor...
...point, to check the story that Dirksen keeps his pants pockets full of enough odds and ends to cover a variety-store counter, he asked the Senator to empty the contents on the spot. Dirksen complied: a pocket knife, a St. Christopher medal, an empty leather pillbox, a cold sniffer, an odd-shaped piece of rough jade, a magnifying reading glass, a 1955 medal of the Kewanee. Ill., Masonic Lodge, a silver dollar money clip, two heavily burdened key rings, and a quarter...
...newest kick is glue sniffing. A 14-year-old sniffer explains: "You take a tube of plastic glue, the kind squares use to make model airplanes, and you squeeze it all out in a handkerchief, see. Then you roll up the handkerchief into a sort of tube, put the end in your mouth and breathe through it. It's simple and it's cheap. It's quick...
...sniffer, glue has much the same effect as alcohol. Regular users develop a tolerance for the stuff, need more sniffs for a kick as time goes by. Glue sniffing is definitely habit-forming. Says a Salt Lake City teenager: "I don't like it ... but I go back to it. If I could get liquor. I would. But it's too expensive and we can't get it anyway...
Guinness itself is a superlative, the world's greatest grab bag of mosts, leasts, longests, shortests, fattests, thinnests, highests, lowests, fastests and slowests-20,000 records in all. Its students can learn that the creature with the most sensitive sniffer is the male silkworm moth, which can detect a female two miles away; that the longest place name belongs to the New Zealand village of Taumatawhakatangihangakoauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu; and that Mrs. Beverly Nina Avery, a Los Angeles barmaid, holds the record for most spouses in a monogamous society, with 14 husbands, five of whom, she once alleged, broke her nose...