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no Comment Buddy, Can You Spare Six Bucks? A panhandler in Chicago's Water Tower Place asks passers-by for enough money to get into a movie. Just Say No Robert Huber, a candidate for the...
...Phyllis Schlafly in The Washington Times: " 'The Lesson of Ginsburg' will echo throughout America for years to come, and probably become a permanent sentence in our history books...
...In other image-building moves, reports The Wall Street Journal, a National Pork Queen contest will be discontinued after this year in favor of a gourmet pork-recipe contest, and the National Porkettes, an organization of pork-producers' wives, have renamed themselves the National Pork Council Women...
...bears an uncanny resemblance to the map of Burma in Southeast Asia—along with the Indian-owned Andaman Islands that stretch southwest from Burma into the Indian Ocean...
...Submissions cannot be acknowledged or returned...
...Lunch will be included...
...Frontiers of Free Enterprise According to Adweek magazine, Julie Kartalian and Joan Fishburn of Sherman Oaks, California, have invented and are marketing "Social Securundies, underwear with detachable Velcro pockets meant to carry condoms...
...Every young man and woman, boy and girl now knows the lesson: If you use illegal drugs, even casually, experimentally, or socially, it may come back to haunt you twenty years later and cost you the greatest opportunity for career advancement you will ever have...
...Readers are invited to submit No Comment items...
...Games People Play Express Yourself, Inc., a toy maker in Charlotte, North Carolina, is marketing the Revenger, a $20 light-and-sound device that permits a motorist to attack another driver with a simulated machine gun, death ray, or grenade launcher...
...Postal Service's explanation of "bulk third-class sacking requirements": "Non-Unique 3-Digit Sacks: When, after all 5-digit and unique 3-digit city sacks have been prepared, there are 125 pieces or 15 pounds of qualifying 5-digit mail to different five-digit ZIP Code destinations within a 3-digit ZIP Code area, with at least 50 pieces or 10 pounds of mail to each 5-digit ZIP Code destination, it must be placed in 3-digit sack...
...The unique ecology, vegetation, and wildlife of this area includes the wildest, shallowest river in the world where natives live in chicken huts high above the water...
...A Clean Slate The Associated Press reports that Vice President George Bush "believes many people have come to conclude, mistakenly, that he has no strong views...
...Burma on My Mind Photo caption in the Milwaukee Journal: "The conspicuous birthmark on Mikhail Gorbachev's forehead that became familiar to Americans in news coverage of the Washington summit...
...Pigs Is Pigs The National Pork Producers Council has launched a $7 million advertising campaign to promote fresh pork as "the Other White Meat...
...A Rose by Any Other Name From a General Motors press release: "General Motors Corporation today reported a volume-related schedule adjustment at its Chevrolet-Pon-tiac-Canada (CPC) Group Framingham (Massachusetts) assembly plant...
...Not to Worry In the event of a simultaneous nuclear accident, earthquake, and reactor failure, reports Scripps-Howard News Service, safety procedures at Tennessee's Sequoiah Nuclear Plant call for an engineer to go to the control-room bathroom, smash three toilets and one urinal with a fifty-pound sledgehammer, and seal the holes in the floor with duct tape...
...It meant GM was closing the plant...
...Please send original clippings or photocopies and give name and date of publication...
...And the Lesson of Bork...
...Just Say No Robert Huber, a candidate for the Republican Senatorial nomination in Michigan, has proposed suspending the Bill of Rights for ninety-day periods to enable the Federal Government to deal with drug pushers...
...This, Bush said, could be traced to the fact that he has served as Vice President for nearly seven years...
...The Prosecution Rests From a list of recreational activities planned for the American Association of Law Schools, which met in Miami, Florida, to discuss "The Law School's Opportunity to Shape the Legal Profession—Money, Morals, and Social Obligation": "There is only one Everglades on the face of the Earth...
...Perfectly Clear From the U.S...
...These Mixed Marriages Never Work Out The Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Northampton, Massachusetts, reached an out-of court settlement with Amanda Blake, a former employee who charged she was fired when she became engaged to marry David Cronin, who worked for Pepsi-Cola...
Vol. 52 • March 1988 • No. 3