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...down-drawn cells. Never try to start the car when any accessories -heater, radio, windshield wipers-are turned on. Keep an aerosol can of ether in the car. You may not have to use it to fight off bears or buffaloes, but it can be a useful way to whiff alive a cold, dank motor...
...Inauguration: "They'll be there just as sure as a cat's got climbing gear." Added Shelby Smith, a retired building contractor in Helen, Ga.: "It's been a long dry spell for us, and we feel a little like farmers when they get that first whiff of needed rain...
Irion uncorked the first whiff of grape shot when he opened the game with a three-point play. A tip-in by CCNY's blue chip guard Rich Silvera gave the New Yorkers an 8-7 lead until Jonas Honick pulled the trigger on a straightaway jumper to ease the Crimson into the lead...
...other hand, Newman, instinctively a popularizer, does not want to risk losing his audience. (Nothing clears the room faster than a whiff of intellectual substance.) Already, he notes, he is viewed in some quarters as "cranky and pedantic." Since his cause is crucial, and the need for converts great, perhaps he is right to be content with taking a different risk: that A Civil Tongue, as it follows Strictly Speaking on the bestseller lists, will be found merely entertaining by the people it ought to Sting. Christopher Porterfield
...Ford's problems, Republicans in Washington were particularly depressed over the whiff of possible scandal in his handling of campaign finances as a Congressman. Earlier this year, acting on the orders of Special Prosecutor Ruff, teams of FBI agents had combed through Ford's campaign financial records in Grand Rapids from 1964 through the present time, and reportedly found nothing. But last week, an informer in Washington slipped a confidential and highly sensitive document to two pairs of investigative reporters: the Wall...