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Computer-dating services have scored well over the past few years, but it is difficult to take an electronic matchmaker into the street or to clubs to check out chance encounters. No longer. A Paris specialty-electronics firm called Promotions et Qualité has developed a device known as "le Flashing." The cigarette pack-size gadget fits inside a shirt pocket or purse and beeps insistently when it comes within ten feet of someone carrying another Flashing that has been tuned to the same frequency...
...Four available wave lengths identify a bearer as being heterosexual, male or female homosexual, or interested in swapping partners with another couple. What if the Flashingee is only a 2 on a scale of 10? Easy, says Carmela Brunet, the 1959 Miss Germany who is the owner of Promotions et Qualité "Just turn off your machine until he is out of range...
There was Meldrick Taylor, 17, who missed his high school graduation to make the team. Raised in Philadelphia, a city with impeccable boxing bloodlines (Smokin' Joe Frazier, et al.), Taylor is a good-looking fighter who can slip a punch, hit hard with both hands and move well. In his semifinal bout with Venezuelan Omar Catari Peraza, Taylor floored him in Round 2 with a straight right and went on to win unanimously. Nigerian Peter Konyegwachie gave Taylor all he could handle in a hotly contested final, but Taylor, surprisingly, won a unanimous verdict. His flamboyant teammate Whitaker...
Race relations at the neighborhood level and in the job market are two different issues, and Flynn, Dukakis, et al, should approach them as such...
...letter of Frederick C. Moten et al (47-26), which makes frequent use of the word "racism," is, in my own opinion, itself racist. It is so because it ignores the rights of Jews to express their legitimate views, and makes an overgeneralized statement about white America...