Tidbits and Outrages
TIDBITS& OUTRAGES REACH OUT AND TOUCH SOMEONE A police officer in Bossier City, Louisiana brought a 120 mph chase to an end by hitting a fleeing motorcyclist with the phone book he had in his...
...TIDBITS& OUTRAGES REACH OUT AND TOUCH SOMEONE A police officer in Bossier City, Louisiana brought a 120 mph chase to an end by hitting a fleeing motorcyclist with the phone book he had in his squad car...
...The Times was acquired last year by Veco International, a company hired by Exxon to work on the spill...
...In Alton, Illinois, a census counter was bitten on the shoulder by a woman who apparently mistook her for a fund-raiser...
...DAN QUAYLE GAVE OUT THE DIPLOMAS (HONEST...
...That's directory assistance," the cop said later...
...In a recent catalog, Brooks Brothers claims to have "invented the buttondown Polo collar shirt in the first decade of this millennium...
...government...
...AND THAT LEADS TO MY NEXT QUESTION: WHEN WAS YOUR LAST RABIES SHOT...
...At last month's commissioning ceremonies at the Navy's service academy in Annapolis, each of the 990 new officers received diplomas stating that they had graduated from the "United States Navel Academy...
...REMEMBER HOW CUTE WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR LOOKED IN HIS...
...ALL THE NEWS THAT FITS, WE PRINT The Anchorage Times illustrated its series on the progress of the Exxon Valdez cleanup with before and after pictures provided by—but not attributed to—Exxon...
...AIM HIGH In an interview with The Washington Post, Mayor Marion Barry defended his record in office by saying, "They can't say we shot anybody, we robbed anybody, that we had a scheme to steal a million dollars from the D.C...
Vol. 22 • July 1990 • No. 6
