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These are the politer ploys in what has become a rather uncivil war. Fighting fire with ire, bumper stickers declaim: KISSING A SMOKER IS LIKE LICKING A DIRTY ASHTRAY. A bellicose lapel button declares: SMOKERS STINK. Since slogans do not extinguish cigarettes, many antis become vigilantes. A scourge at some business conventions these days is a self-appointed enforcer who goes around plucking butts from smokers' mouths. One vigilante tactic: when a fellow guest lights up after dinner, an antismoker dunks his hand in the smoker's water glass. "What the...!" expostulates the smoker...
MOST SATISFYING ACTING OUT OF A NATIONAL FANTASY: When as Cher's closing credits rolled Guest Star Jerry Lewis simultaneously pulled the star's hair and tickled her tummy button...
...Acknowledged to be as accurate as any watch now available-losing or gaining only a minute a year-the digital comes in two basic models: the L.E.D. (for light-emitting diode) and the L.C.D. (liquid crystal display). On the L.E.D.s, the digits light up at the press of a button or, on some models, at the flick of the wrist. The L.C.D. provides a continuous display, but to be seen clearly it must be angled according to the available light...
...block-to-own-one syndrome, though this attraction will fade fast; digitals are expected to sell for as little as $20 in 1976. Another reason why some people like digitals, according to a watch-company executive, "is that it makes them feel powerful-at the push of a button, they can command the time." Says Manhattan-based Writer Jon Borgzinner: "I like it because when I pick it up at night I don't have to figure out from the dial if it's ten of six or two minutes before four; it simply tells...
...family room," he predicts, "the '70s will be the era of the bathroom and body care." The Japanese, who have always had a highly civilized attitude toward hygiene, already have a design for the ultimate shower machine: the bather selects the desired water temperature and soap, pushes a button and is then soaked, washed with suds produced by ultrasonic waves, rinsed, massaged with rubber balls and finally dried with heat lamps. A big step toward civilized johnmanship is the "AD 2000 Comfort Control Center," a prototype built by Olsonite of Detroit. Mounted on a conventional toilet, it provides...