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no Comment Survey by Surgery By the end of this century, says Lawrence Gold, vice president for marketing at A.C. Nielsen, polling and audience measurement will be done by "sensors—devices that...
...You Can't Keep a Good Seat Down The latest word from the Lockheed Corporation about the infamous custom-made toilet seats it sold to the Navy at $640 apiece: "The evidence we have shows we were offering a very fair price...
...Today all three boys are in the U.S...
...When my oldest son was twenty months old...
...Kohl are starting out their year with a special reason to be good workers...
...Nielsen, polling and audience measurement will be done by "sensors—devices that can be carried, worn, and even implanted just under the skin if we can get people to accept them...
...Time is money," Takese says...
...Submissions cannot be acknowledged or returned...
...Why would anyone do that...
...His two younger brothers were just as bad when it came to climbing out of their cribs, high chairs, and car seats, so I also kept them in harnesses until they were four...
...Land of the Free, Home of the Brave A letter to the editor of The Humanist: "Our library has just received the last issue of The Humanist, and I am throwing it and all the back issues we have away...
...He wore one until he was four years old and didn't seem to mind at all...
...Good behavior and work habits earn them a shot at alien spaceships and creatures from outer space, who are 'invading' one of our bulletin boards...
...doner's Genetic Engineering Home Cloning Kit," for children aged twelve and up, at $559...
...Marines, and to my knowledge none of them bears any 'emotional scars' from having been restrained in a harness...
...Frontiers of Free Enterprise From the American Historical Foundation of Richmond, Virginia, "Vietnam War Bayonets of Honor with twenty-four-karat gold plating," at $ 189, postpaid...
...Games People Play From the school district bulletin of Bangor, Wisconsin: "Students who work with Mrs...
...Gold doubts anyone will resist: "Look what we have been able to get people to accept so far...
...Please send original clippings or photocopies and give name and date of publication...
...A Community off Dollars Richard Cyert, president of Carnegie-Mellon University of Pittsburgh, as quoted in The Wall Street Journal: "Everybody used to think there was this great difference between business and universities because one is profit and one nonprofit...
...Boys Will Be Boys Damon Mark Williams, president of the Phi Beta Sigma fraternity at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, said members subjected themselves to branding as an initiation rite because "every fraternity has some little thing like that...
...Stop or I'll Shoot Under Section 939.48.5 of the Wisconsin Statutes, force may be used to prevent an individual from committing suicide, "but this privilege does not extend to intentional use of force intended or likely to cause death...
...When all of the students have shot six invaders each, they will be treated to a movie...
...Physician, Heal Thyself Hospitals run by the Paracleus Corporation in California pay bonuses to physicians who limit medical services provided to Medicare patients...
...But I'm as interested in the bottom line as they are...
...From Robb Reports Christmas catalog, "Dr...
...I have just recently been informed what a humanist is, and I do not agree with its perspective.—Sandra Ford, Assistant Librarian, Russell Hester Library, Chelsea, Oklahoma...
...If someone can do better, we'd be very happy for them to take over the job...
...The Few, the Proud, the Marines A letter from Mother of Three, Texas to syndicated advice columnist Abigail Van Buren: "I am the mother of three sons who were very active and hard to keep track of every second of the day...
...Readers are invited to submit No Comment items...
...Adding Insult to Injury John Walker Jr., who admitted last fall that he had spied for the Soviet Union, faces Internal Revenue Service claims of $193,870 for taxes on his unreported spy income...
...I don't know who was responsible for ordering the subscription, but please do not send it any more...
...They are all playing an 'Outer-Space Invaders' game...
...From American Family of Huntington Station, New York, "an exact reproduction of the $63,000 royal jewel adorning the finger of the woman who will one day be Queen of England," at $19.95 plus postage and handling...
...I decided that for his own safety and the safety of the family, I would buy a harness for him...
...Picking up the Tempo Tape players that speed up voice recordings for rapid listening make it possible to hear Chopin's "Minute Waltz" in forty-four seconds, says Stanley Takese, a manufacturer of speed-listening equipment...
Vol. 50 • February 1986 • No. 2
