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FOR SALE: Approx. 300 assorted T-34 and Stalin-class tanks. A-1 cond., low mileage. Must be seen to be appreciated. Conv. terms arranged. After 6 p.m. call Tel Aviv 7-3200. Open every day except Saturday. LOST: Vicinity Sinai Desert, Army; expensive accessories. Last seen traveling east. Sentimental value. Call anytime PYramid 5-2300. Reward.

The House of Representatives, rather hastily, has approved a bill making it a crime to “cast contempt” on the American flag by “publicly mutilating, defacing, defiling or trampling upon it.” (Burning done as defilement rather than as correct disposal; is not specifically mentioned.) Alas, that such a law should be thought necessary; alas, too, that it will serve only to give the flag-hating set the attention and martyrdom they so sickly desire—until the Supreme — Court strikes it down as an abridgment of the Right to Dissent or whatever. Rally Magazine has proposed a simpler, more effective punishment for burners of the American flag: that they be sentenced to burn Vietcong flags. We suggest that each be made to don a lace cap and, a la Betsy Ross and with no sewing machine, give birth to a new Old Glory.

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FOR SALE: Approx. 300 assorted T-34 and Stalin-class tanks. A-1 cond., low mileage. Must be seen to be appreciated. Conv. terms arranged. After 6 p.m. call Tel Aviv 7-3200. Open every day except Saturday. LOST: Vicinity Sinai Desert, Army; expensive accessories. Last seen traveling east. Sentimental value. Call anytime PYramid 5-2300. Reward.

The House of Representatives, rather hastily, has approved a bill making it a crime to “cast contempt” on the American flag by “publicly mutilating, defacing, defiling or trampling upon it.” (Burning done as defilement rather than as correct disposal; is not specifically mentioned.) Alas, that such a law should be thought necessary; alas, too, that it will serve only to give the flag-hating set the attention and martyrdom they so sickly desire—until the Supreme — Court strikes it down as an abridgment of the Right to Dissent or whatever. Rally Magazine has proposed a simpler, more effective punishment for burners of the American flag: that they be sentenced to burn Vietcong flags. We suggest that each be made to don a lace cap and, a la Betsy Ross and with no sewing machine, give birth to a new Old Glory.