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NO COMMENT Counting in the Dark The Census Bureau plans to count homeless people as part of its next decennial census. According to U.S. News & World Report, "One night a year from now, the bureau...
...If all women had a lot of brothers, this would never take place...
...Please send original clippings or photocopies and give name and date of publication...
...Tobacco sales jumped by 50 per cent in Taiwan during the four days prior to the Chinese New Year, the Economic Daily News reports...
...You Should Live So Long News item from Tobacco Reporter...
...Stars and Stripes Forever Carl von Badinski, a trustee of the Silver Valley Unified School District in Yermo, California, explaining why the schools would require students to salute the flag despite a 1943 Supreme Court ruling barring such a requirement: "Freedom of religion has nothing to do with saluting the flag...
...Long Life, the Taiwan Tobacco and Wine Monopoly Bureau's new luxury blended cigarette, was the most popular brand...
...The Laws off Physics Judge Amado Guerrero of Mexico's tenth district federal court, commenting on the alibi of a defendant in a murder case: "In no way is it possible for a person to be in two places at the same time, especially if there is a great distance between...
...Not to Worry Mayor Marion Barry of Washington, D.C., on the murder rate in the nation's capital: "Outside of the killings, [Washington] has one of the lowest crime rates in the country...
...Roe v. Who...
...Perfectly Clear Former Secretary of State George Shultz, explaining (in The Washington Post) how policy is made: "Now if you have a strategy you say to yourself, 'Well, all right, I'm going to get this out, but I'm going to do it in such a way that I do it in a manner that is compatible, or at least not incompatible, with my general thrust.' So what you try to build is the implementation of your strategy by these incremental little things...
...Explains Jeff Williams, the company's president, "We were looking for a couple that was symbolic of the adventure and romance of shooting...
...More Good News Charter Arms, a firearms firm, is marketing a "Bonnie and Clyde" set of his-and-her revolvers...
...Submissions cannot be acknowledged or returned...
...toss the dice and pursue ownership of theme parks, television stations, and record companies, while trying to bankrupt their unholy competitors and keep their own sexual escapades secret...
...The Associated Press reports that players, "equipped with collection plates...
...Price and volume controls the melody and intensity of the piece, for example, while a new thirteen-month high or low generates a cymbals crash...
...Wear It in Good Health Beth Teggatz, a design student at Iowa State University, is "arousing considerable commentary," according to the Chicago Tribune, for such innovative fashions as a bullet-proof brassiere and a disposable, radiation-resistant wedding gown...
...Law and Order Behind Bars Memo to the inmates of Unit I at the Federal prison in Alderson, West Virginia, from Unit Manager Don Williams: "An automatic incident report will be written on anyone found with trash in their trash cans...
...its sales increased by 133 per cent during the period...
...The pattern of the data literally 'plays' the synthesizer...
...It costs $25...
...Now You Know Iowa State Representative Charles Poncy, Democrat of Ottumwa, commenting on a bill to make marital rape a felony: "I think what really causes marital abuse is small families...
...We'll just try to estimate their age, sex, and things like that.' " Games People Play Regent Continental of Philadelphia, a producer of board games, is marketing a game called "Fleece the Flock...
...In this country, people have the right to worship any religion they desire, but it doesn't give them the right not to salute the flag...
...When Representative Jimmy Quillen, Republican of Tennessee, was asked where he stood on the Roe v. Wade decision, reports The Knoxville Journal, "there was a moment of dead silence on the other end of the phone, and then the Representative said of the case, 'Now what's that about?' " Frontiers off Free Enterprise News item from PC Magazine: "Darryl Gammil, of Gammil Records in Denver, Colorado, has produced sound tapes where key technical variables such as daily stock price and volume, insider buying and selling, achievement of new highs and lows, and intersection with fifty-day moving averages are translated into musical sounds...
...Readers are invited to submit No Comment items...
...Explains one official, 'Where people are sleeping, we won't awaken them...
...News & World Report, "One night a year from now, the bureau will dispatch enumerators, selected from among people who work with the homeless, to count them on streets and in shelters...
Vol. 53 • June 1989 • No. 6
