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no Comment The Five Per Cent Solution The Gallup Poll reports that "there is no credibility crisis for the nation's media," because the great majority of Americans have a high opinion of...
...Submissions cannot be acknowledged or returned...
...no Comment The Five Per Cent Solution The Gallup Poll reports that "there is no credibility crisis for the nation's media," because the great majority of Americans have a high opinion of newspapers, radio, television, and news magazines...
...Games People Play In Houston, a new nightclub called Rambose features bunkers made of fifty-pound sandbags and camouflage netting, a .50-caliber machine gun, a buffet laid out on a green military stretcher, and waitresses dressed in fatigues...
...Army's Training and Doctrine Command and Army Materiel Command [have] approved the letter requirement for a new Multipurpose Bayonet System...
...Emerging from the January 28 Challenger space shuttle disaster and the nation's mourning period is the fact that the next shuttle launch, now scheduled for June, is turning into a premium media event and marketing opportunity...
...Don't Ask A market research survey conducted for the Marketing Research Association showed 38 per cent of the public refuses to take part in market research surveys...
...During the period from 1965 to 1985, only two accidents were classified as 'Broken Arrows,' the Navy's code phrase for the most serious of all nuclear related accidents, the officials continued...
...Huddled Native Masses Only After the Los Angeles City Council voted to declare the city a sanctuary for political refugees, a constituent wrote to Councilwoman Joy Picus, "The Statue of Liberty says, 'Give me your poor and hungry.' It doesn't say anything about foreigners...
...Readers are invited to submit No Comment items...
...Such self-contained centers are the wave of the future...
...Not to Worry From an Associated Press dispatch datelined Washington, January 16: "During the past twenty years, the Navy has experienced 630 'incidents' involving nuclear weapons or their training counterparts, but none resulted in an explosion or posed a hazard to the public, officials said Wednesday...
...I think they should put someone like that in front of a firing squad...
...Life in the Bunker Woodland Heights, a "retirement center" in Little Rock, Arkansas, advertises that residents can "go from visiting with friends, to pursuing your favorite hobby, to enjoying dinner or a dip in the pool without ever stepping outside...
...The dolls come in "Anglo," "Black," and "Hispanic" models, and cost $31.50 apiece...
...The other occurred in 1968, when the submarine Scorpion sank with the loss of all hands in the Atlantic...
...Because the 'system is mission-essential,' it must be 'nuclear and NBC contamination survivable.'" Frontiers of Free Enterprise A company in Littleton, Colorado, is marketing "Baby Jesus" dolls wrapped in blue blankets, each equipped with a snap-on, nontoxic, luminescent halo and a card that reads, "My name is Jesus...
...Please love me...
...Jesus loves you...
...First Things First According to The Wall Street Journal, the Federal Election Commission has moved into posh new quarters, almost tripling its rent, but is cutting costs by eliminating computerized data on personal campaign contributions, including "bundled" donations passed on by political action committees to evade legal limits...
...Please send original clippings or photocopies and give name and date of publication...
...A Blade for World War IV News item from Armed Forces Journal: "The U.S...
...The club promises "explosive entertainment...
...Gott Mit Uns The American Bible Society offers every Marine Corps recruit a copy of The Good Word, a special edition of the New Testament featuring a camouflage-design cover and photographs of Marine life accompanied by appropriate Bible verses...
...The jury Is Still Out Representative Walter Kunicki, a member of the Wisconsin legislature, says state divestiture of stock in companies doing business with South Africa "boils down to the philosophical and moral issue of whether apartheid is right or wrong...
...One occurred in 1965, when an A-4E jet rolled off an aircraft carrier's elevator platform with a bomb on board and sank in the western Pacific...
...The "most vociferous critics" of the media make up only 5 per cent of the population—the best-irr-formed 5 per cent, according to Gallup...
...Silver Lining Department News item from Advertising Age...
...I am your friend...
...Crime and Punishment When a large American flag was stolen from the Exxon Resin Finishing Plant in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Ken Wagner, an Exxon employee, told a local reporter, "Anyone who would do something like that I'd say they have to be out of their heads...
Vol. 50 • April 1986 • No. 4
