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NO Comment All in a Day's Disarmament Work From Editor-in-Chief Elizabeth Sloan-Bubrick's column in McCall's: "Last fall McCall's editor at large, Vivian Cadden, visited the Soviet Union as part...
...It costs $800...
...When Vivian's Soviet hostesses asked her how American women managed to do so much and still look so great, she invited them to McCall's on their trip to the U.S...
...Ten Soviet women—among them a linguist, a surgeon, and a computer-technology engineer—and their children gathered at McCall's recently for a day of fashion and food, American style...
...I will not enforce this ordinance of 'nonconforming signs,' " he said, "mainly because it's nonconforming to my beliefs...
...The Higher Learning Donald Kagan, Richard M. Colgate professor of history and classics at Yale University, writing in The Wall Street Journal: "We live in a time when the natural pacifism of mercantile democratic republics has been intensified by the paralyzing fear of nuclear weapons and the bitter memories of a botched war in Vietnam...
...Tell He Another From an advertising supplement in the May 1989 issue of Alaska magazine, paid for by the Alaska Oil and Gas Association: "After twenty years of activity on the North Slope, the oil industry has proven it can operate without harming the environment...
...This prevents clear thinking about the subject of war...
...Buy a Condo in Omsk A paper issued by the investment banking firm of Salomon Brothers is headed, If the Cold War Is Over, What Are the Implications for the Economy and Real Estate...
...NO Comment All in a Day's Disarmament Work From Editor-in-Chief Elizabeth Sloan-Bubrick's column in McCall's: "Last fall McCall's editor at large, Vivian Cadden, visited the Soviet Union as part of an exchange sponsored by MEND (Mothers Embracing Nuclear Disarmament...
...The Faith that Heals Evelyn E. Kuykendall of Marshville, North Carolina, won a $300,000 jury verdict against faith healers Charles and Frances Hunter, who conducted a ceremony during which Kuykendall fainted, fell, and broke her back...
...From an ad mailer received by a Sears Roebuck customer: "Unless you've used your SearsCharge account recently, you could have as much as $ 1,550 or more to spend at Sears on anything we sell...
...A Heartbeat Away Vice President Dan Quayle, as quoted in The Wall Street Journal: "I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy—but that could change...
...We whisked our guests off to Bumble & Bumble Salon for Beauty Makeovers...
...Readers are invited to submit No Comment items...
...You could almost think of it as found money...
...Foods People Eat A cookbook published by Nathan's Famous Coney Island hot dog emporium contains recipes for such exotic delights as hot dogs au vin blanc and hot dogs amandine...
...Submissions cannot be acknowledged or returned...
...Better Sorry than Safe Glamour and Cosmopolitan magazines turned down a series of ads by Smith & Wesson, supposedly devoted to home-security tips, when it turned out that a toll-free number in the ads gave callers a sales pitch for guns costing $445 and up...
...I Am the Law In San Juan Bautista, California, acting Police Chief Lonny Hurlbut said he would refuse to enforce a local ordinance barring the use of the American flag to advertise commercial establishments...
...The Power and the Glory Boston Edison Company pays more than $60,000 a year to the chauffeur who drives the $24,000 Cadillac provided for use by the utility's chief executive officer...
...Tradition Ain't What It Used to Be Under the heading Summer Traditions, The New York Times told how to make jams and jellies, relishes and pickles in a microwave oven...
...Off with Their Heads When the Bush Administration's "drug czar," William Bennett, was asked how he would feel about beheading drug dealers, he replied, "Morally, I don't have any problem with that at all...
...That About Covers It Posted in the Minnehaha County Jail in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, is a list of seventy-five prohibited acts, including "any act determined to be prohibited...
...Please send original clippings or photocopies and give name and date of publication...
...How Lucky Can You Get...
...For the Patriot Who Has Everything Available from New York jeweler Ilias Lalaounis, a gold Statue of Liberty pendant described as "representing the glory of freedom...
Vol. 53 • August 1989 • No. 8