Tidbits and Outrages
Tidbits and Outrages lone Man, .77 Doors Here’s our annual report on the number of doorkeepers employed by the West Virginia State Senate. There are 13 this year. The chamber has...
...Paying for Potholes This has been the winter of the pothole and a lot of people are finding out that the warranties on their tires don’t cover damage from potholes...
...Feeling and Vacuum Cleaners Have you read the advertisement for Slim-Skins: " Just step into the Slim-Skins, which cover the body from ribcage to knees, snap the attached hose to your vacuum with the universal adapter which fits any vacuum cleaner-and turn on your machine...
...Drink are served in glass flower pots...
...Dinner's in Planting Beds The publicity release for Twigs a new Washington restaurant, says, "Cocktails are a special affair at Twigs...
...Countv...
...The chamber has ten doors...
...If De Nicola is correct, this could be nothing other than a conspiracy in restraint of trade...
...Instanly you will experience a sensation so remarkable that it must be felt believed...
...Civil Servants Pledge Support for Reorganization James Lardner of The Washington Post came up with this quote from a nameless bureaucrat: “We’re all like headless nails down here-once you get us in, you can’t get us out...
...In October 1976 Bary De Nicola of Market Tire told The Washington Star’s Mary Ann Kuhn, “The big five tire manufacturers said no more warranties against road hazards...
...Labor Struggles Our annual award for honesty in public relations goes to Mike Dowling, public affairs director of the American Federation of State...
...and MuniciDal Emdovees who wrote this paragraph in a memo to labor reporters planning to attend the mid-winter meeting of the AFL-CIO executive council in Bal Harbour: "With all the cocktail parties, poker games, poolside naps,and unanimous votes on oficial resolutions, very little that’s unexpected or important ever happens at the executive council meetings...
...so instead of silently accepting your tires’ fates, write the Bureau of Competition of the Federal Trade Commission or the Anti-Trust Division of the Department of Justice and urge them to investigate this curious simultaneous decision by the tire companies...
Vol. 10 • April 1978 • No. 2
