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no Comment Pay as You Flow Representative Fred May, a member of the Washington state legislature, proposed a 6 per cent sales tax on toilet tissue to pay for cleanup of the state's polluted...
...We have imperial responsibilities in the Western Pacific that have nothing whatever to do with civic progress in that country...
...Soaring crime has aroused fear in millions everywhere, creating a fantastic market for remarkable Paralyzer...
...Bravery Under Fire Members of the Air Force's 501st Security Police Group, which guards the U.S...
...Readers are invited to submit No Comment items...
...I'm often loose with my tongue...
...France promised to consult West Germany before using its tactical nuclear weapons on German soil...
...It includes a couple of choruses of the hymn Nearer My God to Thee...
...I may have said something about the NAACP being un-American or communist, but I meant no harm by it...
...Crime and Punishment John Vollman, a Miami police academy consultant, told the Southern Conference on Corrections in Tallahassee, Florida, that rapists should be chemically castrated and murderers should be loboto-mized with lasers in states that do not impose capital punishment...
...Richard M. Nixon has been elected to associate membership in the French Academie des Beaux-Arts, entitling him to wear the official uniform, hat, and sword...
...More Good News James Greene, a spokesman for the U.S...
...Paralyzer stops a 300-lb...
...Food and Drug Administration, acknowledges that permissible levels of radiation in spices do leave a radioactive residue, but insists there is no health problem because "spices make up such a small part of the average person's daily diet...
...Another Reagan judgeship nominee, Eric G. Bruggink, once urged that The Diary of Anne Frank be barred from Alabama schools as "most depressing" and that Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House be excluded for its "radical feminism...
...Submissions cannot be acknowledged or returned...
...Burn Before Reading Military expert Bruce Blair, commissioned by the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment to study the command, control, and communications system for nuclear war, had his report classified as extremely sensitive by the Pentagon...
...Do I Hear a Waltz...
...En Garde...
...Representative Ren Taylor countered that it might be a better idea to impose a charge per flush...
...It's an III Wind...
...Judicial Temperament Jefferson B. Sessions III, a Reagan Administration nominee for a Federal district judgeship, when asked at a Senate confirmation hearing whether he had referred to the NAACP and 'the ACLU as "un-American" organizations and "communists," replied: "I don't recall saying that...
...Blair, who is merely cleared for top secret information, is no longer allowed to see his own report...
...Elizabeth Gardner, a psychology professor at Fairfield University in Connecticut, reported that the average diner takes 3.23 bites per minute when there is no background music, 3.83 bites when slow music is playing, and 4.4 bites when there is fast-tempo music...
...The days of civil disobedience are past," the judge said...
...no Comment Pay as You Flow Representative Fred May, a member of the Washington state legislature, proposed a 6 per cent sales tax on toilet tissue to pay for cleanup of the state's polluted waters...
...Not to Worry From a dispatch datelined Paris in The New York Times: "Under the terms of a new military cooperation pact...
...Not with a Bang but a Whimper Cable News Network has reportedly prepared a Doomsday Tape to be telecast in the final minutes before the world is destroyed by nuclear war...
...Voice off Authority Syndicated columnist William F. Buckley Jr., commenting on developments in the Philippines: "Democracy, particularly in its currently accepted, fanatical application (one-man, one-vote) is nothing more than a Western superstition...
...Frontier Justice In Dickinson, Texas, Municipal Judge Carlton Getty fined a high-school junior $250 for leading eight fellow students in a hallway sit-in protesting a locked restroom...
...Please send original clippings or photocopies and give name and date of publication...
...From an advertisement for a tear-gas dispenser called Paralyzer, manufactured by United Defense Industries, Inc., of Phoenix, Arizona: "Now Crime Pays You...
...air base at Greenham Common in Britain, received a letter from headquarters commending them on "an outstanding year" that included "400 arrests of peacewomen...
...They are not acceptable any longer...
...attacker, sells fast all over town...
...The letter noted with pride, "We hit one peace-woman with a vehicle...
Vol. 50 • May 1986 • No. 5