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NO COMMENT Make it Snappy Coming soon from Reader's Digest Books after five years of preparation: a condensed version of the Bible. Inseparable The Wall Street Journal, quoting a Reagan...
...It is also the ultimate symbol of an attitude The Pro-gressive will recognize, from time to time, by bestowing the Neutron Bomb Award...
...Readers are invited to submit appropriately foolish "No Comment" items as well as candidates for the Neutron Bomb Award...
...Wizard—Don Herbert (Mr...
...Police Precautions Police in Fremont, California, detained and strip-searched a woman who showed up at the station to pay a fine for failing to license the family dog...
...Robert L. Du-Pont, former director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, "The Emit test removes the guessing from detecting marijuana use...
...The hilarity comes when he shows her how to make an atomic bomb, then tells her to be careful and try not to explode things at home...
...An interesting and amusing look at science shows of the 50s...
...Oh Those Skeptics News item, datelined Mexico City, from The New York Times: "John Gavin presented his credentials today as the new American Ambassador to Mexico...
...United States Map Company of New York City promotes "a huge mural map of the United States of America that measures 828 square inches...
...Gavin speaks excellent Spanish and appears to have convinced skeptics in the American business community that he knows Mexico as well as most of them...
...Roll on, Thou Mighty Mass of Money The Army's new Ml tank weighs too much for standard railroad flatcars, so the Pentagon is procuring new, stronger cars—569 of them at a projected cost of $82 million...
...The appointment of the fifty-year-old actor was not well received in Mexico, where he had gained fame for television spots advertising rum...
...This month, the first Neutron Bomb Award goes to Barron's for an article on Three Mile Island which contained the following sentence: "In the generation of nuclear energy, man-made hazards seem unavoidable, but bankruptcy strikes us as a needless risk...
...How Huge Is Huge...
...Please send original clippings or photocopies, indicating name and date of publication...
...The test will help pediatricians and parents determine if their child's poor grades or ill health is a result of marijuana use...
...Submissions cannot be acknowledged or returned...
...Wizard) teaches a young girl dressed in pigtails and a tie how to create explosions...
...THE NEUTRON BOMB AWARD The neutron bomb, which spares property but destroys people, has been described as "the ultimate capitalist weapon...
...Inseparable The Wall Street Journal, quoting a Reagan Administration official who opposes Federal bail-outs of faltering thrift institutions: "Capitalism without failure is like Christianity without Hell...
...But Mr...
...He shows her everything from popping a balloon to blowing up paint cans filled with gunpowder, right on the studio floor...
...Let's see now . . . two feet by three feet is 864 square inches...
...First Things First Deep in a salt mine at Hutchinson, Kansas, vital artifacts and documents have been stored away for survivors of a nuclear holocaust—including hundreds of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer movie negatives and the franchise records of Pizza Hut, Inc...
...Says Dr...
...A Megaton of Laughs From the Video Images catalog of taped television programs from the 1950s: "Watch Mr...
...Leaves of Grass Hailed as a "historic breakthrough" is the Emit Cannabi-noid Assay, a test developed by the Syva Company of Palo Alto, California, which detects the presence of marijuana in urine as long as two weeks a'fter use...
...Nobody Here but Us Revolutionaries Honeywell, Inc., manufacturer of computers and such, announces that "the movement toward automating the office is a revolution," and advertises, "We're seasoned revolutionaries...
Vol. 45 • August 1981 • No. 8
