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...All Others Pay Cash The Independent Bankers Association, rejoicing in the reappointment of Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker: "In God and Volcker We Trust...

...Submissions cannot be acknowledged or returned...

...The object is to destroy relatively more of the enemy's population while minimizing one's own population loss...

...Out of the Closet The Daily Texan, student newspaper of the University of Texas at Austin, quoting State Representative Bill Ceverha, sponsor of a bill that would outlaw homosexual conduct: "The diseases homosexuals carry pose a public health risk because homosexuals want to handle food, teach in schools, and perform other public functions...

...Frontiers of Free Enterprise The Ferrara Pan Candy Company of Forest Park, Illinois, produces a confection called Atomic Fire Ball...

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...A headline in American Health magazine proclaimed it A drug for the holocaust: Iosat will prevent cancers, save lives...

...The package features a mushroom cloud and proclaims the candy's "red hot flavor...

...Not to Worry Comforting words from Edward H. Teller, known as the father of the hydrogen bomb: "There is a limit to the amount of fallout a thermonuclear explosion can produce as well as limits to how far the fallout can spread...

...High Fashion Bloomingdale's in New York City has opened a "Street Couture" boutique featuring clothes that are ragged, tattered, and spattered—"the street look...

...Look for the Silver Lining The Wall Street Journal, reporting on the failure of two (out of two) operational flight tests of the cruise missile: "The Air Force doesn't call the tests 'failures,' preferring to call them 'partial successes' because the missiles worked 'flawlessly' until they went off course...

...Masterpiece Theater It Ain't Herbert Schmertz, vice president for public affairs of Mobil Oil, explaining why Mobil (and other major corporate sponsors) declined to help fund a thirteen-hour public television documentary on the Vietnam war: "It's just not our thing...

...Games People Play From the instruction manual for "Ultimatum: A Game of Nuclear Confrontation," distributed by Yaquinto Publications of Dallas, Texas: "The players determine by agreement or a roll of the die who will launch his attack first ('first strike...

...There would be more survivors than victims...

...If the target is a population center, the attacker is credited with the number of population factors destroyed...

...Please send original clippings or photocopies and give name and date of publication...

...The winner is generally the one who has destroyed more of his enemy's population than he himself lost...

...The Blue and the Gray John T. Molloy, described by the Lansing State Journal as "a leading success-image consultant," addressed 400 Michigan state officials at a civil service seminar and advised them to "dress like General Motors executives—'blue, gray, dull, and powerful.' " The Pause that Refreshes The San Francisco Chronicle, in an editorial praising Senate confirmation of Kenneth Adelman as director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, commended Adelman for his "refreshingly frank admission" that he had never given much thought to the possibility of nuclear disarmament...

...An employee explained, "Bag ladies are in...

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...Pop a Pill When You Hear the Sirens Potassium iodide, which blocks uptake of radioactive iodine, is being marketed under the brand name Iosat for use "in a radiation emergency only...

...aid to El Salvador is that it "is on the mainland of the United States, and we do have a responsibility for the defense of the continental United States, over and above all other priorities...

...Headline in The Philadelphia Inquirer, June 10: Planned Capital Spending down 3.1% from Last Year...

...Clear Days on the Economic Scene Headline in The Wall Street Journal, June 9: Capital Spending May Be Climbing Faster and Stronger than Expected...