No Comment
NO COMMENT Watch Out For Falling Rocks Lieutenant General Daniel Graham, former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, justifying the overkill capacity in the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile:...
...Recordings are being sent to shareholders...
...A Risk by Any Other Name Two employees of the Chalk River Nuclear Laboratories in Ontario have proposed (in /Vac/ear News magazine) that the name of nuclear power should be changed to "oklo-electric power...
...In addition to the inevitable greeting cards, there are Pac-Man buttons, posters, puzzles, seals, and gift wrap...
...Susan Weinthal, who markets New York City condominiums, says, "I think this all comes from our concerns about identity...
...It costs $4,500...
...Reach Out-Way Out -and Touch Someone During the flight of the space shuttle Columbia, AT&T allowed callers to dial a number that would let them listen in on the astronauts' conversations with ground control at the Johnson Space Center in Houston...
...It cost fifty cents for the first minute, thirty-five cents for each additional minute, up to a maximum of two and a half hours per caller...
...Baste Often for Best Results The Hammacher Schlemmer department store in New York City has a solar-powered lounge chair which "rotates once every fifteen minutes for more uniform tanning...
...It's part of a campaign called "Better Banking Is Here Today...
...The Racket Racket According to the July issue of Glamour magazine, tennis champ Bjorn Borg is paid $600,000 a year for using Don-nay rackets and John McEnroe receives a like sum for using Dunlop rackets...
...Patron of the Arts The Emhart Corporation, a manufacturer of machinery, has commissioned the Sym-phonie Automatique, a three-minute "concerto of manufacturing machinery...
...More Bucks After the Bang The Treasury Department's Bureau of Printing and Engraving is looking for a suitably out-of-the-way location where it could continue printing postage stamps and currency after a nuclear attack...
...Next: Banking by Appointment Only New York's Citibank is testing a scheme that would require "low-balance" customers to pay a fee for transactions involving human tellers rather than cash machines...
...nuclear weapons stockpile: "There are also enough rocks on Earth to kill the world's population several times over...
...or even a bar complete with television set and video cassette recorder...
...Please send original clippings or photocopies, indicating name and date of publication...
...A Privy Fit for a Prince If you're a member of the trendy set, says The Wall Street Journal, your "stylish bathroom" probably features a whirlpool bath, bidet, pedestal lavatory, and one-piece toilet...
...Sales are "on an all cash basis," with minimum acceptable bids ranging upward from $565,000...
...Submissions cannot be acknowledged or returned...
...The Devil's Work Evangelist Penny Baker, a former country singer, persuaded residents of Des Alle-mands, Louisiana, to burn "devilish" books, records, and magazines, including such works as Snow White and Cinderella, as well as such publications as McCalTs and Ladies' Home Journal...
...Frontiers of Medicine In a paper delivered at the Pan-American Congress of Rheumatology, an Emory University physician warned that players addicted to Pac-Man and other video games may risk chronic problems of the hands, wrists, and shoulders...
...Frontiers of Free Enterprise Hallmark Cards has at least a dozen items in its new Pac-Man line...
...Readers are invited to submit "No Comment" items...
...No Such Thing as a Free Launch The Atlanta office of the General Services Administration has been advertising three former missile sites for sale in Dade County, Florida...
...They explain, "The use of the same word, nuclear, in connection with both nuclear weapons and nuclear energy is confusing the public and putting peaceful applications at a psychological disadvantage...
...One can put one's statement in a bathroom...
...Women players receive lower pay for endorsements because, a manufacturer explains, "Women don't have any hangups about playing with a racket that has a man's name, but you'll seldom see a man play with a racket that has a woman's name...
...If you have a "truly memorable bath," it may include a Japanese soaking tub, a steam bath...
Vol. 46 • August 1982 • No. 8
