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NO COMMENT Let Your Fingers Do the Fleeing New telephone directories for Aroostook County and the town of Houlton, Maine, include four pages of directions on how and where to flee in the event of...
...Economy in Government Every employe whose last name consists of three or fewer letters has been dropped from the Department of Agriculture telephone directory...
...Mysterious East The municipal government of Canton in the People's Republic of China has entered into a food-canning venture with the La Choy division of Beatrice Foods Co., Chicago...
...Secret Ballot In Warren, Ohio, a citizen sued School Superintendent John R. Leeper for refusing to disclose the names of the elected School Board members...
...Please send original clippings or photocopies, indicating name and date of publication...
...Submissions cannot be acknowledged or returned...
...Laugh...
...Heated in microwave, sandwich is ready to eat in less than a minute...
...Secret Weapon From the "Product News" column in Service Station Management magazine: "Sidewinder sandwich, named after the missiles used to defend against the Libyan attack, contains smoked sausage and hot taco sauce on torpedo-shaped bun...
...Electric Circus Virginia Electric Power Company's new hydroelectric project in Bath County will consume four kilowatts of power for every three kilowatts generated, the Richmond Times-Dispatch reports...
...It had been advertised as "explosively funny for those aged six and upwards...
...If It's Incoherent, Leave It Alone From an editorial in The Wall Street Journal: "As we have said here before, we would even be willing to suffer a trimming of projected military spending if we could see evidence of a coherent defense strategy...
...Let 'em Eat Crabmeat When Susan Benjamin, who raises two handicapped sons in the suburbs of Chicago, wrote to President Reagan to protest budget cutbacks in funds for educating the handicapped, the White House sent her two eight-by-ten glossy photos of the Reagans, a form letter on voluntarism, and a recipe for crabmeat casserole...
...I Thought I'd Die Public protests forced a British toy manufacturer to withdraw a game called "Bombshell," which depicted a bomb-disposal squad in the process of being blown up...
...Love and Money Armand Hammer, whose Occidental Petroleum empire includes Hooker Chemical, the company that dumped carcinogenic wastes at Love Canal, has established a $1 million prize for the scientist who finds a cure for cancer...
...Readers are invited to submit appropriately foolish "No Comment" items as well as candidates for the Neutron Bomb Award...
...Perfectly Clear Headline in the Portage (Wisconsin) Daily Register: "Reagan Says Arms Buildup May Spur Disarmament...
...NO COMMENT Let Your Fingers Do the Fleeing New telephone directories for Aroostook County and the town of Houlton, Maine, include four pages of directions on how and where to flee in the event of a nuclear attack, Sex and the Senator Senator Jeremiah Denton, Alabama Republican, opposing legislation that would permit prosecution of a husband for raping his wife: "When you get married you might expect you're going to get a little sex...
Vol. 46 • February 1982 • No. 2
