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NO COMMENT Faithless Alumni John Greany, director of the Association of Former Intelligence Officers, commenting (in Newsday) on former CIA agents who have denounced and exposed the agency: "Shark...

...moon landing, the flag, the Olympic torch, Mount Rushmore, the moon rising with cartoonish swiftness behind skyscrapers, and the Air Force Thunderbirds flying in formation while the sound track plays Lee Greenwood's 'God Bless the U.S.A.'" Membership Has Its Privileges Michael Gianakos of Baltimore refuses to pay a $6,700 American Express bill for charges he incurred over a two-month period at two local establishments, the Club Pussycat and the Jewel Box...
...According to a Reuters dispatch, "Experts have been unable to determine how to correct the problem...
...Golden Shears Oribe Canales, who operates two hair-styling salons in Manhattan, charges $125 for a haircut...
...Mourning in America In Chicago, Gatling's Funeral Home has installed a drive-through visiting booth that permits mourners to pay their respects, sign the funeral register, and view the remains of the loved one (on a closed-circuit television screen) without ever leaving their cars...
...in the March issue of Military Review: "Team Yankee, by Harold Coyle...
...Frontiers of Technology Police and fire emergency lines in Cleveland have been clogged with calls from cordless telephones that automatically dial 911 when their batteries start to fail...
...NO COMMENT Faithless Alumni John Greany, director of the Association of Former Intelligence Officers, commenting (in Newsday) on former CIA agents who have denounced and exposed the agency: "Shark bait is about the best use I have for them...
...Worth reading for both fun and learning...
...A fast-paced tale of how World War III might look from the tank turret...
...Stop the Presses From an Associated Press report on a new study of poverty by the National League of Cities: "The poor are more likely now to live in metropolitan areas, especially in low-income neighborhoods...
...Submissions cannot be acknowledged or returned...
...A Chuckle a Minute Recommended reading from Lieutenant General Walter F. Ulmer Jr...
...To avoid climbing up to the antenna focus all the time to clean out the nests, somebody installed an electronic scarecrow, a tone-generator that produced cosmic-sounding bleeps and bloops that were audible all around the area...
...The design is then encased in a shimmering gold lame petite zippered pouch...
...We would tell the tourists that the bleeps were signals being received from space—'music of the spheres'—and the visitors went away satisfied...
...Without that respect, we're all killers-no better than savages...
...The Tigress is styled with a deep, dark blue finish, highlighted with fourteen-karat gold trim...
...The Washington Post reports that his $15.3 million mortgage carries a monthly payment of about $134,000...
...Says proprietor Lafayette Gatling, "This way the girlfriend can go through the drive-through and pay her respects in whatever name she chooses, while the wife is inside with the deceased...
...According to The Washington Post, it features INS Commissioner Alan C. Nelson "in schooldays photographs, in testimonials from Congressmen, in an oil portrait, on the Today show, MacNeil-Lehrer News Hour, and Nightline, and in other scenes throughout the film, which climaxes with shots of a U.S...
...They are useless traitors who gather people about them to think evil thoughts...
...The New York Times reports he's booked through January of next year...
...Now Showing at Your Neighborhood Detention Facility The Immigration and Naturalization Service has produced a twenty-four-minute film called The Nelson Years—A Retrospective...
...Just Plain Folks Senator John D. (Jay) Rockefeller, Democrat of West Virginia, has refinanced his home in Washington, D.C...
...The Scientific Method From an article by Tony Rothman (in Scientific American) on the 300-foot antenna of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Green Bank, West Virginia: "Birds were another difficulty: They liked to roost in the receiver horns, far above the dish...
...He says he used his card to charge the services of prostitutes and isn't obliged to pay for unlawful acts...
...Kill 'em With Kindness From an editorial by Joseph Levy, managing editor of The Daily Iowan in Iowa City: "If the death penalty is to have any kind of future it needs to be carried out with great reverence and respect for the value of life...
...It happens all the time...
...Readers are invited to submit No Comment items...
...A Beautiful Way to Go From an advertisement (in American Firearms Industry magazine) for the Titan Tigress .25 caliber pistol: "This designer-styled pistol fulfills a woman's protection and fashion needs with elegance...
...Please send original clippings or photocopies and give name and date of publication...
...Ivory-like grips are complemented with a long-stemmed red rose, individually carved and bearing the signature of the artist...

Vol. 53 • May 1989 • No. 5


 
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