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These are the politer ploys in what has become a rather uncivil war. Fighting fire with ire, bumper stickers declaim: KISSING A SMOKER IS LIKE LICKING A DIRTY ASHTRAY. A bellicose lapel button declares: SMOKERS STINK. Since slogans do not extinguish cigarettes, many antis become vigilantes. A scourge at some business conventions these days is a self-appointed enforcer who goes around plucking butts from smokers' mouths. One vigilante tactic: when a fellow guest lights up after dinner, an antismoker dunks his hand in the smoker's water glass. "What the...!" expostulates the smoker...
...Patrolmen's Benevolent Association accepted the layoffs, though with bitterness and threats of work slowdowns. Firemen called in sick in record numbers. The sanitation workers, with the token protest but implicit approval of their union leadership, illegally left their jobs, promising to turn New York into "Stink City" and shouting from picket lines, "Wait 'til the rats come...
...elevator doors close behind you on the seventh floor of William James Hall, the stink of pigeon droppings consume the air. To your right is a laboratory filled with behavioral science's elite corps of experimental organisms. There they coo and peek in their numbered lofts, the proud and nameless pigeon menagerie that once controlled and were controlled by B.F. Skinner. At one time, some of these birds played ping pong in Skinner boxes. Some spend time dancing together--also in boxes. Some were conditioned to hobble around in figure eights. Others were lucky enough...
...tough playing with a couple of guys that are killing penalties, because when they get tired. I have to rest on the bench too. It's hard to score when you aren't playing much, but of course the other reason might be that I stink...
...another proclaimed, DEATH TAKES A SEAT AT THE U.N. Eban bitterly denounced the current pro-Arab mood of the U.N., which, he said, "would refuse to support the Ten Commandments because they came out of Israel."* Lane Kirkland, secretary-treasurer of the AFL-CIO, added that "there is a stink of Munich in the air, and it reeks of Arab...