NO COMMENT
NO COMMENT All Quiet on the Military Front The U.S. Army is testing the use of video games ("Battle Zone," "Space Invaders," "Asteroids") as combat training devices. Says Captain Steven Cox of the...
...and, unfortunately, there is political mileage in doing so...
...When Utah State Senator Frances Farley told him, "We were elected by our constituents in the same manner you were elected by yours...
...Out of the Woodwork From a Sony television ad in The New Yorker...
...When you switch it oh, movies come out of your furniture, your favorite news reporters emerge from beneath the glasses and ash...
...Readers are invited to submit appropriately foolish "No Comment" items as well as candidates for the Neutron Bomb Award...
...JOSEPH CIARDIELLO B4/+??$2A...
...Ladies' Day Nevada State Senator Lawrence Jacobsen suggested that women legislators scheduled to take part in the Western Conference of the Council of State Governments might prefer to go on a "spouses' tour...
...Primarily because of the very nature of the system we operate under...
...At Fort Bragg, North Carolina, the Army is considering adding a canine contingent—parachutes and all—to the crack 82d Airborne Division...
...In this day of consumerism, the pressure is on elected and appointed officials to go the extra mile to protect the public...
...Either we're ready or we're not...
...but if you start firing at a friendly tank or aircraft, you will lose points...
...Submissions cannot be acknowledged or returned...
...Please send original clippings or photocopies, indicating name and date of publication...
...The Market Economy in Action From a news item in The New York Times: "PITTSBURGH, Aug...
...The watering holes, family trees, secret indulgences and mating habits of the rich will be discussed...
...It is also the ultimate symbol of an attitude The Progressive recognizes, from time to time, by bestowing the Neutron Bomb Award...
...In the scoring system, if you destroy an enemy tank, you will get points...
...Dark Days in the Insurance Game Howard Moreen, a senior associate with the Insurance Management Group, Inc., of Stamford, Connecticut, writing in The National Underwriter, a leading insurance trade publication: "Why am I somewhat pessimistic...
...Are there video games for dogs...
...We are not here to sightsee," Jacobsen replied he was just being "hospitable...
...The neutron bomb, which spares property but destroys people, has been described as "the ultimate capitalist weapon...
...Frontiers of Free Enterprise A New York outfit called Network for Learning offers, for a mere $21, a course on "how to identify, attract, charm and ultimately mate wealth...
...We're meeting the competition,' a United States Steel spokesman said...
...This month's Neutron Bomb Award goes to Representative Samuel Stratton, Democrat of New York, and his colleagues on the House Armed Services Committee, who want to ease or eliminate requirements for environmental impact statements at nuclear weapons facilities, explaining (in House Report 97-45) that the Committee "does not believe it is in the public interest to delay vital defense programs while the procedural niceties of environmental impact statements are endlessly argued in court...
...13 (AP)—The United States Steel Corporation, the nation's largest steelmaker, and the eighth-ranked Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Corporation matched price increases on products used in food and beverage cans announced previously by other steelmakers...
...And Senator John G. Tower, the Texas Republican who heads the Senate Armed Services Committee, says (in Business Week), "The next war will be a come-as-you-are event...
...We will also have our own tanks on the screen...
...Says Captain Steven Cox of the Army's Training Support Center at Fort Eustis, Virginia, "For example, on one screen we are going to have the T-62 tank, which is a Warsaw Pact tank...
...trays, and your living room turns into a theater...
...Complaint Department When George Smith, fifty-four, of Fort Jefferson Station, New York, wrote to his Representative, Republican William Carney, to complain about President Reagan's economic policies, he received a polite reply—and a visit from two Secret Service agents, who wanted to know about his "unusual interest" in the President...
Vol. 45 • November 1981 • No. 11
