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NOCOMMENT It's the Real Thing At Harvard Medical School, researchers measured the sperm-killing effects of Coca-Cola in test-tube conditions and found that Classic Coke, New Coke, caffeine-free...
...There were military operations the contras were unable to carry out because they didn't have clothes...
...Submissions cannot be acknowledged or returned...
...Nixon...
...taxes: "It's sort of like Disney World...
...Restrained Realism From a review in The Washington Times of /, Martha Adams, a novel by Pauline Glen Winslow: "It's sometime in the 1990s and the United States has been attacked by the Soviet Union...
...The Ultimate Welfare Queen...
...Love that Missile Representative Les Aspin, the Wisconsin Democrat who heads the House Armed Services Committee, as quoted in The Wall Street Journal: "The Midg-etman is perfect...
...Government paid $325,000: "Forget it...
...a lot of them...
...Every time the press calls it 'the Democratic missile,' my heart goes pitter-patter...
...America is the Disney World of capitalism, and I truly believe there is a premium foreigners will pay to participate in this market...
...Foods People Eat The George A. Hormel Company of Austin, Minnesota, is marketing salads packed in eight-ounce pull-top cans...
...Representative Harold Ford, Tennessee Democrat, as quoted in the Congressional Record: "The majority of all black children are born to a single teenage mother...
...It Takes One to Know One Former Ohio State football coach Woody Hayes, fired in 1978 after he punched an opposing team's linebacker, told a recent Ohio State commencement audience, "There've been a lot of great men fired— MacArthur...
...Please send original clippings or photocopies and give name and date of publication...
...It's a Small World After All William Diefenderfer, chief of staff of the Senate Finance Committee, arguing (in The Wall Street Journal) that foreigners who do business in the United States should pay a higher portion of U.S...
...When there's human misery, we do very well...
...They said the star, surrounded by a ring of dust, "looked hamburger-shaped...
...A real spellbinder [that] avoids the jingoistic pitfalls that have conspired to wreck lesser works...
...It's an III Wind...
...Art Smith, a speculator in crude-oil futures on the New York Mercantile Exchange, explaining to Texas Monthly magazine why he and fellow traders are prospering: "We thrive on wars, plagues, and famine...
...How to Spot a Terrorist From an Advertising Age article headed Coping with Terror: "Another U.S...
...Medium-range ballistic missiles launched from Cuba and Nicaragua eliminate most of America's land-based missiles...
...ad agency executive said: 'If you're at an airport and standing next to three people wearing dish towels on their heads and who haven't shaved lately, go buy yourself a candy bar.'" Games People Play The CIA has hired Outward Bound, which packages daring and dangerous vacations, to run a nine-day wilderness adventure course in leadership, communications, and team-building skills...
...There were no uniforms...
...A Bird for Our Time Naturalist William Bartram, writing in 1791 about America's national symbol: "The bald eagle is likewise a large, strong, and very active bird, but an execrable tyrant: He supports his assumed dignity and grandeur by rapine and violence, extorting unreasonable tribute and subsidy from all the feathered nations...
...Freedom-Fighter Fashions A "knowledgeable U.S...
...Now Asserts a Test Ban Would Spur Nuclear Spread...
...official" quoted (by Knight-Ridder Newspapers) on a nonexistent shipment of Nicaraguan contra uniforms for which the U.S...
...Readers are invited to submit No Comment items...
...NOCOMMENT It's the Real Thing At Harvard Medical School, researchers measured the sperm-killing effects of Coca-Cola in test-tube conditions and found that Classic Coke, New Coke, caffeine-free New Coke, and Diet Coke are all effective spermicides...
...They were out buying jeans—Sergio Valente jeans—in order not to go naked...
...Within hours, Soviet bloc garrison troops are landed at key points, and the Sovietization of America is under way...
...A Star Is Born Astronomers at the Cero-Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile named a newly discovered star "Gomez's Big Mac...
...Perfectly Clear Front-page headline in The New York Times: U.S...
...Disney World can charge a premium because it is the theme park of theme parks...
...The advertised shelf-life is two years...
...Diet Coke had the strongest effect, showing zero sperm movement within one minute...
...Classic Coke had five times the spermicidal effect of New Coke...
Vol. 50 • July 1986 • No. 7