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...Beirut's busy international airport, security measures include dogs trained to sniff hashish and electronic devices designed to detect metallic objects. One morning last week the electronic eyes were not working as well as the canine noses, and six young Arab passengers, all students at American University of Beirut, sauntered on to Olympic Airways' Athens-bound Flight 255 toting five pistols, two hand grenades and a submachine...
...away about a year," he said. "But when the races turned back to the fairgrounds in New Orleans, I took a ride out just to see 'em. The first sniff of a stable and I was back again, 24 hours a day." He took a deep breath of air and exhaled slowly. "The smell of manure is great to me. It's like fresh air; that's how used...
...Beirut International Airport, customs men have trained dogs to sniff out drugs hidden in luggage. In Tashkent, a woman Soviet agent with a superb olfactory sense sniffed hash carried by three young Americans, who were flying via Aeroflot from Afghanistan to Finland. Two are still serving time in the infamous Potma labor camp southeast of Moscow...
...they find out soon enough. Masters tells them they're drunk, and they are-happy drunk. He tells them they itch, and they scratch uncontrollably. He tells them the people next to them smell terrible. They sniff disgustedly...
...cast is uneven, and Director Gene Saks too often seems merely to have urged his actors toward assorted bedlam. Martin Gabel displays a finely arrogant condescension as the Hawk, who can sniff out Communist threats in unpopulated jungles, and David Burns as the Ambassador hilariously exhales his words like a trombone in anguish. A lavish campaign contributor, he storms that Washington doesn't even know where his post is. That is the play's problem as well, but the laughs are located at Broadway's Helen Hayes Theater, and in a dry season they are thirst quenchers...