No Comment
NO COMMENT The Power of Positive Thinking Two electric co-ops in Minnesota, the United Power Association of Elk River and the Cooperative Power Association of Minneapolis, have ear-marked up to...
...We feit there had to be some Clearing of the air...
...The Soviet Union is resorting to 'every device of propaganda' in an effort to hinder the rebuilding of America's defenses and force a hasty resumption of arms ne-gotiations, Eugene Rcstow, the director of the U.S...
...The director, Richard Laws, says including women in the expedition would cause competition for sexual favors, and some would inevitably be left out since "there will always be wallflowers...
...In Santa Cruz, California, a Good Samaritan named David Chamberlain, who dropped coins into expired parking meters to spare motorists the ex-pense and embarrassment of parking tickets, was arrested THE NEUTRON BOMB AWARD The neutron bomb, which spares property but de-stroys people...
...Please send original clippings or photocopies, indicating name and date of publication...
...has been described as "the ultimate capitalist weapon...
...Cast Thy Bread...
...When an offending story with an unidentified source appears, the Computer immediately teils which officials have talked to the reporter who wrote the story...
...Frontiers of Free Enterprise The Kit 'N Caboodle Company of Park Ridge, New Jersey, is marketing a One-Night Stand Kit, described as "perfect for the way the new woman lives...
...NO COMMENT The Power of Positive Thinking Two electric co-ops in Minnesota, the United Power Association of Elk River and the Cooperative Power Association of Minneapolis, have ear-marked up to $300,000 for a nine-month study of alleged adverse health effects along high-voltage power lines "to confirm our belief that these lines pose no adverse health effects...
...Soviet Perfidy News item in The Philadelphia Inquirer...
...Perfectly Clear Secretary of State Alexander Haig, in an interview with The Wall Street Journal: "The con-duct of international affairs is essentially dialectic, and you have a sine curve of attitudes...
...Electronic Leak Detector Newsweek feports the Reagan Administration has developed a high-tech system for detect-ing the source of leaks to the press: All contacts between reporters and high officials are stored in a Computer...
...It is also the ultimate symbol of an attitude Tfye Progressive recognizes, from time to time, by bestowing the Neutron Bomb Award...
...When Love Has Gone Southwest Airlines, which used to call itself "the love airline," is under Federal court order to hire a twenty-nine-year-old man from Dallas, Greg Wilson, who was refused a job as a flight attendant be-cause he lacked "feminine charmand beauty...
...In London, Harry and Esther Hough were denied the right to adopt a baby be-cause their marriage "exuded excessive harmony" and would expose a child to insufficient "negative experiences...
...Readers are invited to submit appropriately foolish "No Comment" items as well as candidates for the Neutron Bomb Award...
...Dancing on the Ice The British Antarctic Survey, staffed by about seventy scien-tists, remains an all-male enterprise...
...Represent-ative Jamie L. Whitten, Demo-crat of Mississippi, had the answer: "On the basis that it is essential and economical, economical for the country and for the Congress to have food available around here...
...This month's Neutron Bomb Award goes to The Wall Street Journal for an editorial on complaints by residents of Arlington and Alexandria, Virginia, and the Georgetown section of Washington, D.C., about excessive noise from jets landing and taking off at nearby National Airport: "Our immediate instinet is that people who can't stand airplanes should stay out of the flight path...
...Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, said Saturday...
...for making unauthorized me-terdeposits...
...It contains toothbrush, tooth-paste, razor, comb, Shampoo, mouthwash, shower cap, and contraceptive—all "totally dis-posable and portable...
...Submissions can-not be acknowledged or re-turned...
...Hunger on Capitol Hill D?ring a Congressional Budget debate, Representa-tive Henry B. Gonzales, Dem-ocrat of Texas, asked why food stamp programs for the poor were being cut while subsidies continued for the House and Senate restaurants...
Vol. 45 • September 1981 • No. 9
