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NO COMMENT Higher Learning, Double Cheese Among the inducements offered to Bo Schembechler to persuade him to stay on as the University of Michigan's football coach was a $150,000 pizza-parlor...
...Low and Inside, Over and Out Mizuno, a Japanese manufacturer of baseball gloves, is marketing a catcher's mitt with a built-in electronic transmitter...
...The revenues will be used to finance an ad campaign to encourage Californians to eat more beef...
...The neutron bomb, which spares property but destroys people, has been described as "the ultimate capitalist weapon...
...It is also the ultimate symbol of an attitude The Progressive recognizes by bestowing the Neutron Bomb A ward...
...No Touch of Class Anthony Andrews, star of Public Broadcasting System's recent "Brideshead Revisited" series, with a front-line report on the class war: "The class system has no real influence in England now...
...Body Bags Are Extra The GI Joe doll, withdrawn from toy stores at the height of popular opposition to the Vietnam war, is back on the shelves...
...But if they see that chair moving down the highway, it may save a life...
...Founded last fall, it owes $1,400 to the IRS for withholding taxes and $276 to the Kountry (Corner restaurant for meals...
...If Not the Best, Why Not the Least...
...You get a little more, you die...
...Buckle Up The Georgia State Senate voted 29 to 22 to approve a "traveling electric chair" that would move from county to county to execute condemned offenders...
...Acts of God and Nan The Vatican is building a $1.6 million bomb shelter to protect its collection of 70,000 manuscripts and one million books from earthquakes and nuclear attacks...
...It's now part of a set called GI Joe Mobile Strike Force—a thirteen-member squad equipped with jeeps, tanks, and missiles, which sells for almost $200...
...Please send original clippings or photocopies, indicating name and date of publication...
...Our thirty-ninth President has a political action committee of his own—the Jimmy Carter Committee for a Greater America, Inc...
...two lawyers, and the owner of a logging firm...
...Dead Microphone The National Labor Relations Board has ruled that it is an unfair labor practice for an undertaker to install hidden microphones to monitor calls from employes to union headquarters...
...NO COMMENT Higher Learning, Double Cheese Among the inducements offered to Bo Schembechler to persuade him to stay on as the University of Michigan's football coach was a $150,000 pizza-parlor franchise...
...It sends signals to a pitcher's glove with a built-in receiver...
...Wear a Blue Shirt At the Dickason School in Columbus, Wisconsin, pupils are punished for breaches of discipline by confinement to a three-by-fifteen-foot room, under closed-circuit television surveillance, for up to a day at a time...
...Said Senator Ronnie Walker, "Folks read about the electric chair, they hear about it—but those folks with criminal minds don't care about the law...
...Letting Down the Supply Side The California legislature has passed a Republican-sponsored measure to raise taxes on beef by up to $5 million...
...It appears, however, that the so-called 'working class' is trying to keep the class system alive in order that the unions may survive...
...THE NEUTRON BOMB AWARD This month's neutron bomb award goes to Representative Leigh Bosse, a member of the New Hampshire legislature, who opposed further studies of nuclear risks at the Seabrook power plant because, he said, he already knew all he needed to know about radiation: "You get a little, you lose your hair...
...Nobody Here but Us Chickens Among twenty-one persons named by Interior Secretary James Watt to a board charged with advising the Government on how to manage 328 million acres of western land are: three members with connections to the oil and gas industry...
...School officials call the procedure "superb...
...Readers are invited to submit nominations, as well as appropriately foolish "No Comment" items...
...You get a little more, you get sick...
...Submissions can not be acknowledged or returned...
...seven with current or former ranch holdings...
...three affiliated with mining...
...Forever Yours When Steven Jackson, accused of beating his wife, entered a guilty plea in Franklin County, Kansas, Judge Larry Coursen sentenced him to buy his wife a box of candy...
Vol. 46 • April 1982 • No. 4
