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NO COMMENT Much ado.... The U.S. Metric Association, Inc., has issued a twenty-eight-page pamphlet urging that meter and liter be spelled metre and litre. Judicial temperament David Belew,...
...Scapegoats The Government told a Federal judge in Los Angeles that "national defense" requires the slaughter of4,000 wild goats on San Clemente Island because the goats are interfering with the Navy's use of the island as a target range...
...Child pornography Novelist Kay Boyle recently obtained her security files under the Freedom of Information Act and found in the almost 2,000 pages of dossiers the assertion that she "had a clandestine affair with Ezra Pound before World War I." Her comment: "I would have been no more than ten — and I didn't like him then...
...On target In Spokane, Washington, a newly formed Skylab Self-Defense Society has designated the city as the "Official U.S...
...Judicial temperament David Belew, recently appointed to a Federal district judgeship in Texas, told The Fort Worth Star-Telegram that his membership in an all-white country club had not figured in his confirmation hearings because "no nigger — no black ever applied for membership...
...He added that he has "done more for Negroes or blacks or whatever you call them than just about anybody...
...He missed an all-A record when he scored only a B in a course called "Beginning Bowling...
...Government Skylab Target," explaining: "We know the Government will try to hit the bull's-eye and we're sure, based on the Government's performance in the past, they'll miss...
...has ordered its subsidiary, International Silver Co., to continue manufacturing knives, forks, and spoons, while selling off the division that makes trays, coffee pots, and candlesticks...
...Perfectly clear Words of wisdom from Representative Richard Kelly, Florida Republican: "I think that the free-enterprise system is absolutely too important to be left to the voluntary action of the marketplace...
...Limited service In a reorganization designed to consolidate its market position, Insilco Corp...
...The higher learning Lawrence Keller graduated from the University of Chicago with a 4.999 grade-point average...
Vol. 43 • August 1979 • No. 8
