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First came the Air Force's $7,600 coffeepot. Then its $640 toilet-seat cover. And now the Navy's $620 ashtray. The latest embarrassing revelation of outrageous prices for military accessories brought Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger out smoking hot last week. Three officers held responsible for the purchase of seven grotesquely priced ashtrays, including an admiral with 33 years of service, were relieved of their duties, Weinberger announced. The officers, all at the Miramar Naval Air Station near San Diego, did not pay "the slightest attention to the basic idea that the price bore no relationship whatever...
Although the Navy called Weinberger's removal of officers before an investigation extraordinary, the Defense Secretary said this kind of reprimand would become "standard" for such excesses. A spokesman for Grumman Aerospace Corp., the defense contractor that made the ashtrays for the E-2C surveillance aircraft it also manufactures, explained the sky-high price tag: "We are not ashtray manufacturers." Grumman has offered the Navy a refund that will lower the price to $50 an ashtray, but Weinberger has better ideas for dealing with the inflated cost. He proposed, only half-jokingly, to substitute "old mayonnaise jars for ashtrays...
...flavored Hollywood punk, Piper (George Olden) does not like the Bleeding purportedly Catholic orphanage run by the sadistic Sister Serena (Ann De Salvo). Twentieth-century America being the breadbasket of the world and all, Piper has enough food--so much so that he uses the mashed potatoes as an ashtray-but lacks the respect accorded even laboratory test animals...
Adding the separate ottoman or footrest makes the chair blissfully relaxing. Adding the "task accessories" for reading and writing makes it a marvelously efficient work station. The lamp and a small round side table for a telephone, ashtray, vase, drink or whatnot are supported by a freestanding column. Another column supports a television set or computer monitor, as well as a cantilevered, tilting table that can hold a computer keyboard or serve as a writing surface. The columns can be placed anywhere. The computer disc drive goes in an upright console next to the chair. Diffrient maintains that "the energy...
...with the major's wife, Sheila. The mayor, Vincent A. Cianci Jr. in a fit of anger that ultimately would make him ex-mayor and Sheila his ex-wife came over to Ray's house on March 20, 1983 and beat him up with first, his fists, then an ashtray, then a fireplace log, and finally a burning cigarette...