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...Asking price: $2,995...
...Why We Are in El Salvador Representative Robert K. Dornan, California Republican, asserted (on public television's McNeil-Lehrer Report) that if U.S...
...We do have accidents...
...Submissions can not be acknowledged or returned...
...They displayed it at the National Rifle Association's recent meeting in Philadelphia...
...argued that even if the transactions were illegal, they constituted a 'standard business judgment' to try to maximize profits...
...Please send original clippings or photocopies, indicating name and date of publication...
...Blowing Up Ronald Reagan Jeff Thomas, a New York street vendor, is selling life-size inflatable plastic Ronald Reagan dolls...
...Bring on the Tooth Fairy William F. Baxter, chief of the Justice Department's antitrust division, as quoted in The New York Times: "No one in his right mind could possibly suppose there was a connection between the concentration of economic markets and political power...
...military and economic aid were withdrawn from El Salvador, there would be "a flood of busboys to Miami...
...Where Men Are Men, and Women Are Boots From an advertisement for Texas Brand Boots: "Treat 'em good and they'll treat you good...
...Charlton Heston as Pinochet...
...Bird Thou Never Wert Lieutenant General Robert C. Kingston, commander of the U.S...
...Rapid Deployment Force, says Operation Gallant Eagle, the military training exercise in which five para: troopers and three other soldiers died, was "a succssful operation," though "it's a shame we had to have the tragic fatalities...
...Actor Jack Lemmon says that when Nancy Reagan was asked about his film, Missing, which deals with CIA complicity in the Chilean coup and the death of an American citizen, she commented, "I thought Jack was wonderful, but obviously we wish it had been more upbeat...
...In the Old West, it's said, some men took better care of their boots than their women...
...Not altogether admirable, but certainly understandable...
...The sales clerks kind of ooh and ah...
...Depending on how well they answer questions about radioactive elements, each student's simulated stock of plutonium either grows or adds to the growth of his or her opponent until one of them reaches 'critical mass' and thus loses in an explosion of light...
...Readers are invited to submit appropriately foolish "No Comment" items...
...The Duke's Monument In honor of their father, Patrick and Michael Wayne are marketing a John Wayne commemorative handgun...
...As with any good friend, you take care of them and they take care of you...
...Please Don't Feed the Robots Castle Entertainment, Inc., of Westlake Village, California, plans to develop family recreation centers featuring music played by bands composed of robot animals...
...They also made the novel argument that Citicorp management had no duty to disclose the improper transactions since the firm had never claimed its top officers possessed 'honesty and integrity.' Apparently a majority of the five SEC commissioners accepted those arguments, and the case was dropped...
...Don't Leave Home without It Both Visa and MasterCard have introduced new, higher-priced "gold" cards, and The Wall Street Journal quotes a bank officer as saying, "We've had people who don't even need a credit card begging for them...
...Learning Can Be Fun Chemical & Engineering News reports on "a novel means for coaxing [chemistry] students through the drill work that many require for mastering this discipline"—a computer game called Nuclear Casino: "Two students try to outwit one another by answering problems spelled out on the screen...
...The price ranges upward from $13.95, and each dummy bears the warning, "Not to be used as a life preserver...
...NO COMMENT Corporate Accountability From a Newsweek account of a dispute within the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) over improper currency transactions by Citicorp, the nation's second-largest bank holding corporation: ". . . high-level SEC staff members, including chief of enforcement John Fedders...
Vol. 46 • June 1982 • No. 6
