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...either case, the wind was blowing from Washington again, and the stink was powerful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: New Smells | 9/8/1952 | See Source »

Governor Driscoll retorted stiffly: "There is a vast difference between the stink that assails citizens as they cross the Meadows, and the industrial smells that occasionally accompany large-scale operations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW JERSEY: Moonbeam McSwine's Fate | 8/11/1952 | See Source »

...some big cities, vast traffic jams never really got untangled from dawn to midnight; the bray of horns, the stink of exhaust fumes, and the crunch of crumpling metal eddied up from them as insistently as the vaporous roar of Niagara. Psychiatrists, peering into these lurching, honking, metallic herds, discovered all sorts of aberrations in the clutch-happy humans behind the steering wheels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jul. 28, 1952 | 7/28/1952 | See Source »

...Buenos Aires theater staged the première last week of a new Argentine movie called Barbara Atómica (rough translation: Hot-Stuff Barbara), the Catholic Action youth movement stepped out to show its disapproval. Reason: some of the mambo dancers in the movie were virtually unclad. Throwing stink bombs and shooting off firecrackers, the Catholic Action members started a rowdy uproar in the theater that ended with eleven injured, 92 arrested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: The Perils of Barbara | 6/2/1952 | See Source »

...with scathing criticisms, forced vacations, veiled threats. Then he genially invited Steed to accompany him on a trip to the U.S. where they both met President Harding and traveled as if there never had been any friction (see cut). When they returned, Northcliffe sent what the staff called a "stink bomb"-a memo charging Steed and his assistants with sins of incompetence and mismanagement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Lord Vigour & Venom | 5/19/1952 | See Source »

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