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no Comment First Things First Pam Blessinger, president of the Roosevelt Island Residents Association, as quoted in The New York Times: "We had a Buddhist monk who wanted to put a peace monument...
...Nutty as a Pentagon Manual Senator Sam Nunn, Georgia Democrat, introduced into the Congressional Record an eighteen-page document, complete with charts, tables, and references, spelling out the official Defense Department specifications for GI fruitcake...
...Illusionist David Copperfield...
...Now You See It, Now You Don't Television log listing from The Miami Herald: "CBS Morning News...
...From MacArthur's of Hammacher Schlemmer, Chicago: "The Electronic Wine Guide II...
...Army Colonel Benjamin Francis Matthias von Stahl, Nebraska state chairman of civil defense and environment for the Veterans of Foreign Wars, says "millions of illegal aliens" are the advance guard of an enemy invasion that must be repelled by veterans acting as "Warriors of Christ...
...and indicates whether the wine is ready to drink, requires aging, or may be too old to drink...
...The winner is the first to make it alive from Manhattan to the Bronx...
...Says state VFW Commander Jack Armagost, "Some people think he is crazy, but I don't think he's so damned crazy...
...Neither Snow nor Rain nor Heat nor Gloom of Night...
...Not to Worry News item from the El Paso Times: "Dallas— Economists .say a sharp rise in the number of bankruptcy filings in Dallas is not necessarily a sign that the region is in trouble...
...I'm more interested in baseball fields...
...Readers are invited to submit No Comment items...
...He used to work in the Pentagon...
...It was sent to Green Bay by express mail, but failed to arrive in time...
...Games People Play Among "the hottest-selling items in New York" last Christmas, according to Reuters news agency, was a board game called Subway Vigilante...
...Anything to Declare...
...Submissions cannot be acknowledged or returned...
...In Need off Further Study The Hearst Corporation has endowed a $300,000 Helen Gurley Brown Research Professorship at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism...
...Frontiers of Free Enterprise From the Horchow mail-order catalog: "A cut lead crystal bottle with a silver-plated nipple ring and cover...
...It is named for the author of Sex and the Single Girl...
...Two hours...
...Roughing It According to the Roper Poll, 37 per cent of Americans say they don't know how they could get along without aluminum foil, 46 per cent find Scotch tape indispensable, and 28 per cent would be unable to function without pantyhose...
...no Comment First Things First Pam Blessinger, president of the Roosevelt Island Residents Association, as quoted in The New York Times: "We had a Buddhist monk who wanted to put a peace monument on the island...
...54.95...
...What do you advise the Canadian customs officers to do...
...This unique, pocket-sized microprocessor-controlled device provides instant vintage rating data on classic wines from France, Italy, and California...
...Please send original clippings or photocopies and give name and date of publication...
...report on the Gramm-Rudman tax reform bill...
...20...
...Makes a very special gift for a special child...
...As the acting minister, you have just been advised that 250,000 American troops are at the border, prepared to advance through Canada toward the U.S.S.R...
...News item from the Press-Gazette of Green Bay, Wisconsin: "A successor to Postmaster George S. Farah could be named by the end of January, according to Norman Miller, Milwaukee, Postal Service district manager [who] was among 220 Postal Service employees at a testimonial dinner for Farah Saturday night...
...The Globe and Mail of Toronto reported that the following question was raised during a Canadian government nuclear-war training exercise: "The global war is on...
...The one thing it says is that a lot of new businesses are being formed in the area,' Ray Perryman, director of Baylor University's economic forecasting service, said...
...Certifiably Sane Retired U.S...
...It's played on a subway map, and each player is supplied with markers in the form of guns, knives, and bullets to fend off muggers...
...Miller had intended to present Farah with a retirement certificate signed by [Postmaster General Paul] Carlin...
...A Woman's Place West Virginia Chief Justice Richard Neely fired his secretary, Tess Dineen, from her$23,000-a-yearjob because she refused to babysit his four-year-old son...
...That's indicative of prosperity.'" Silver Lining Department The mail-order catalog of the Banana Republic Travel and Safari Company features the "authentic Spanish Franco shirt," described as "brand-new, never worn, and one of the few worthwhile vestiges of an otherwise deplorable regime...
...World peace will come and go, but my kids have to play Little League...
Vol. 50 • March 1986 • No. 3
