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...Wham-O. Even if Frisbee eventually becomes a professional sport, as some observers fear, there is still likely to be more money in selling the disks than in flipping them. Twenty-four years ago, a Los Angeles building inspector named Fred Morrison invented the Frisbee after studying the airworthy pie pans used by the now defunct Frisbie bakery company of Bridgeport, Conn. In 1956 he sold the patent on an improved design to the Wham-O Co. (those wonderful people who brought you the Hula-Hoop), and since then the royalties have been sailing in: about $800,000 to date...
Griffiths' book is sharpest when he is dealing with subjects that lend themselves to the kind of heavy irony he practices-pacification, for example, WHAM (Winning the Hearts and Minds of the people, etc.), and Washington-based computerized evaluation of the ill-fated hamlet program. But Vietnam Inc. is more valuable when simply showing the pain and mess the war has caused. Because Griffiths, at his best, reinforces the sound historic conviction that this particular war could never have been won on terms useful to anyone, these sections have doubly tragic effect. They make the book...
...fact, I often feel like Batman without the wham zow- Batman in retirement behind the desk, handing out the scissors and scotch tape necessary to keep up the life flow. But retirement at age 22? Clearly unacceptable...
...took a couple of 95? three-packs of Cuesta-Reys instead. Then looked at his watch. It was 12:45 p.m.-no time to get the paint and wine if he was going to make the basketball game at the local Boys' Club. He hurried outside and WHAM-the long arm of the law nabbed him. Shoplifting! Yes, there was the unpaid-for pack of Cuesta-Reys in his pocket. But look here, officer . . . Down at the McLean substation they booked, mugged and fingerprinted former Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall, then released him to appear in court...
...CAPTAIN WHAM...