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A () COM ME ST Games People Play New product listing from Update, a monthly publication of CompuServe, Inc., Columbus, Ohio: " 'Grenada, a Nice Little War,' allows you to try your hand at...
...Such a Bargain Writer Cleveland Amory reported in Parade that a "Russian sandwich"—corned beef, cheese, sauerkraut, Russian dressing-costs $9.95 at the Beverly Hills Hotel...
...To try this new map, access the Home Services section, 'Games and Entertainment,' or type GO GAM-49 from any prompt in the Consumer Information Service...
...After denouncing those who had commented on the Commission's report without reading it, Walsh was shown a passage calling for "significantly increased levels of military aid as quickly as possible...
...William B. Walsh, founder of Project Hope and a member of the Kissinger Commission on Central America, told a Minneapolis audience that contrary to news accounts, the Commission had called for no increase in military assistance to the region...
...I would be doing what the American people want me to do...
...Frontiers of Free Enterprise Comptroller Ray L'Heureux of the Alta-Dena Certified Dairy in Los Angeles said the firm has not decided what to do with $3 million it will receive from the U.S...
...Department of Agriculture for reducing milk production surpluses, but the money "may go toward planned expansion...
...He said, "By golly, it does have it in there...
...According to Chemical Week, "Trefry is seeking funds to determine if the river can also handle dioxin and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in the same way...
...A () COM ME ST Games People Play New product listing from Update, a monthly publication of CompuServe, Inc., Columbus, Ohio: " 'Grenada, a Nice Little War,' allows you to try your hand at commanding the joint rescue forces as they move on Grenada...
...Honor Thy Author Joseph Bonanno, the seventy-nine-year-old organized-crime boss, filed an $18 million suit against Simon & Schuster for depicting him as a "cheap gangster" on the paperback cover of his autobiography, A Man of Honor...
...The secret number, set up at a cost of about $1 million, is 1-800-523-2929...
...Unlisted Number The Reagan Administration has ordered the Department of Energy not to publicize its toll-free telephone service, which provides consumers with information about conservation and renewable energy...
...Ask the Man Who Owns One Dr...
...Submissions cannot be acknowledged or returned...
...STUART GOLDENBERG Growth Industry According to The Wall Street Journal, outplacement services— the firms that help employers fire people—are earning $125 million this year, up from only $60 million two years ago...
...Where There's Life, There's Grope News item in the Daily Sun of Cornell University: "The Voice of Lebanon, the rightist Christian radio station, said the Lebanese army's Fourth Brigade regroped at the coastal town of Damour, ten miles south of Beirut...
...River Stay 'Way from My Door John Trefry, a chemical oceanographer at the Florida Institute of Technology, says toxic wastes such as lead, cadmium, mercury, and arsenic can safely be dumped into the Mississippi River to settle in the sediment at the bottom...
...Nobody Here But Us Chickens When a West Virginia legislative committee questioned Miles Dean, director of the state's Office of Economic and Community Development, about acid rain, he testified: "Our position is that it doesn't exist...
...I'd be helping to keep the peace...
...The Music Man Former Secretary of the Interior James Watt says he had never heard of the Beach Boys before he banned them from performing on the Washington Monument grounds because "the only music I know is 'The Star-Spangled Banner' and 'Amazing Grace.'" Peacekeeper Sergeant David Demmons, a tailgunner on a nuclear-armed B-52H bomber, in an interview with The New York Times: "If the call came right now, I would have no qualms about flying off on a mission, even if it meant having to use nuclear weapons...
...No cheese, $3...
...Without the cheese it costs $12.95, itemized as "Russian sandwich, $9.95...
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...I stand corrected...
Vol. 48 • May 1984 • No. 5