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...same time that he laboriously spells out the quaint customs of the Middle East for ethnocentric Middle America, Bulliet apparently concludes that some things can never be explained to the TV-educated audience for whom he writes. So he doesn't even try. What, for instance, is a "cipher pad"? Why haven't the Soviets flattened the Afghan guerilla-controlled town of Girishk? And do you really expect to take Abu Dhabi with...
...Atlanta's Fulton County Stadium is known as "The Launching Pad" because of the high number of home runs hit there. For two points each, name the three Braves who hit 40 or more homers in 1973. For two more, who was the last Brave to win a batting title? And for the final two points, who was the last Brave to lead the NL in earned run average...
...anything to take notes on during breakfast and luncheon meetings. They resorted to envelopes, blank checks or even $20 bills. Now executives find something more convenient. Sitting on the tables next to the salt and pepper is a small (2½ in. by 4¼ in.) gray-beige note pad with the legend, "Notes While Dining at the Maurice...
...tablecloths and napkins covered with ink. Now the restaurant's business guests receive blank cards (3¼ in. by 5 in.) that display the silhouette of a polo player astride his mount. At the American Harvest Restaurant in Manhattan's Vista International Hotel, diners receive a thin pad that slips into a shirt pocket. Still, some places resist the trend. Says Harry Poulakakos, 45, owner of Wall Street's popular drinking spot Harry's at Hanover Square: "If someone asks us for paper, we give them a yellow legal pad...
...illicit aid to reproducing copyrighted material without permission? Why not also ban pens, since they too can be used to copy down protected material? After all, the bulk of student plagiarism from copyrighted material goes via the pen from the text to the note card or legal pad. Imagine this same Kroft arguing in some medieval court that peasants illegally pass on the tales of the traveling minstrel and so demand that some farmer's tongue be removed...