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Hi-Tech in Action At the British Ford engine plant in South Wales, engineers spent three months and $360,000 to cope with occasional jams in the assembly line. The solution: an official kicker who...
...Peacekeeper A man in Morgantown, West Virginia, admitted he had taken almost 1,900 college texts worth more than $60,000 from eight area libraries...
...Uncle Sam is pulling out, and Saigon holds your only hope of ever going home...
...Such a Bargain Police in Knoxville, Tennessee, arrested a couple for trying to swap their newborn daughter for a twenty-five-inch color television set...
...The latest edition, for 19821983, names 206 firms...
...democracy...
...if your business associates are cheating...
...Tourist Attraction In the ten years preceding its near-meltdown in March 1979, the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania had about 150,000 visitors...
...Wet Women Not Wanted A U.S...
...The other 2,000 civilian and military Coast Guard employees weren't even told...
...How Basic Can You Get...
...From the investment letter published by Legg Mason Wood Walker, a Wall Street brokerage firm: "We suspect George Orwell would be pleased with the 1984 financial prospects for Orwellian bumper stickers, T-shirts, coffee mugs, and Big Brother calendars...
...And CCS Communication Control, Inc., of New York City sells (for $50) a miniature voice stress analyzer that can be used, the firm says, "to find out if your employees are stealing...
...Frontiers of Free Enterprise "Vietnam, 5/75...
...Readers are invited to submit No Comment items...
...Nineteen Eighty-Four, Inc...
...From an ad in Creative Computing magazine for Saigon: The Final Days, a new computer game from Adventure International...
...You've escaped, but you have a long way to go before you reach Saigon—if you ever do...
...Not to Worry Because of a computer error, more than forty Pennsylvania counties received official warning that a nuclear attack was imminent...
...In the four years since it reopened to the public, the plant has had 345,000 visitors...
...Admirals First When U.S...
...Heads We Win, Tails You Lose From the program of a Technical Marketing Society of America training seminar for Federal contractors: "Dealing with Government Auditors' Objections to Your Accounting System— When to Confront, When to Circumvent...
...The solution: an official kicker who wears a steel-toed boot and kicks the engine-bearing pallet when it stalls...
...Crashing through the dense jungle foliage, you hear the distant fire of the NVA camp guards...
...Be Your Own Big Brother Identikit, a company in Wantagh, New York, will send you (for $10) "enough materials to fingerprint five people...
...Paving the Way After ruling by martial law for twenty months, Bangladesh's military dictator, Lieutenant General H.M...
...Submissions cannot be acknowledged or returned...
...if your friends are really your friends...
...Ershad, named himself president "to pave the way for...
...Coast Guard headquarters in Washington received a bomb threat, eight Admirals were immediately evacuated...
...Nobody paid any attention...
...Inflated Image The first Directory of Personal Image Consultants, published in 1978, contained thirty-six listings...
...Treasury Department official explained to The Wall Street Journal that only men were appointed to a forty-five-member savings bond sales committee because "this committee has always had a lot of prestige, and we haven't wanted to water down the membership...
...Bumper sticker seen in Raleigh, North Carolina: Let's Get Back to Basics—Stop Teaching Sex in the Classroom...
...He said the books contained information that could be used to design nuclear weapons, and he wanted to keep them from falling into the wrong hands...
...Please send original clippings or photocopies and give name and date of publication...
Vol. 48 • March 1984 • No. 3
