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O' (Formerly of Texas Coin Exchange) t_J "Very Personal Investments " Rare Coins, Loose Diamonds, Precious Metal, Fine Jewelry & Watches WK BUY, SELL, TRADE 404 University Dr. East • 846-8916 Page 6 The Battalion Friday, November30, 1990 WRRD r ...SO CATCH WRPD'S /✓EW 5£fUE.S, 'W/wta sinrsoHs; TUESDAY NIGHTS AT 3 J by Scott McCullar UM, APFARE/tTLy WE-'VE ALKE-APi CHANGED OUR SCHEDULE. IT'S BEEN MOVED TO FKIPAVS AT 7 PM. UM, WE SEEMED TO HAVE MOVED IT AGAIN.ro SATURDAYS AT t //EVER A1I//P. WE DECIDED IT W/1S GOING 10 FLO Pm WE CANCELLED IT. Spade Phillips, P.l. by Matt Kowalski VT«U Ape the detective it CflN You FifruflF our THE Er-IOitJO VJITH THE CLUES GimEN ■A THE GMool-DeRiHG PUlfJS OF gOhlFlRE’. A FtiPTv Beep, chns hnp TFQou-f) Bottles utt^F/NG THE HiTchEoI- •0( 'rVRhiNb OF HT NoorV IN THE BRTHTUa. Tubularman by Boomer Cardinale DAY A PTE 60NRRF. / IT SAY^ HECE W THr "AoVEHTuteS IN cNLtoownG " t>uce i s Leflt/UNO, ANO HE'S giving new Rwres t© Military toy sales explode, merchants say Nerd House by Tom A. Madison SAN ANTONIO (AP) — They haven’t surpassed Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles or Bart Simpson dolls in popularity, but merchants say mil itary toys are experiencing a mini boom in sales this season because of Operation Desert Shield. . “As soon as the U.S. went over there, kids started coming in asking for models of the jets and armor they’d learned about in the news,” A1 Whitenack, manager of Hobby Stop in San Antonio, said. Among the top-selling models at Whitenack’s store are F-15 Eagle air craft and Abrams Ml tanks. Models of the F-14 Tomcat plane, featured in the 1986 movie “Top Gun,” also are enjoying a resurgence. Action toys always sell well during the fourth quarter of each year, which accounts for 60 percent of an nual toy sales, industry officials said. And despite the military toys’ popularity, retailers report the big- gest-selling toys still are Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Bart Sim pson dolls. “It makes sense that military toys would be up, but I’d say business is warm, not hot,” said industry analyst Barry Rothberg of Mahon, Nugent 8c Co. in New York City. On Wednesday, Paul Watson, manager of a K mart store here, re ceived his second shipment of plastic battle carriers and Hercules planes. “I would say that our military-type toys are selling better than antic ipated, and I think it’s a direct result of what’s going on over there (in the Middle East),” Watson said. Friday LAS V [md UNI ettled a vith a c< lunnin’ ional has “Histoi 3 years Farkania jresident ammed i •ulings ai Maxso: innounc< ept a pe hat will rom posi Leep thei eason. the Long,playful ^tNrep. day, thf sulliCs palled t-IppeeFT Nome aa/d we/rr off oaj the ip. own /viefpy way. AIDS vaccine promising; human test conducted SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A vac cine that shielded two chimpanzees from the AIDS virus during re search in San Antonio is being tested for the first time in humans, medical officials said. Revell Inc., a Chicago-based toy manufacturer, capitalized on the military buildup three weeks after the first U.S. troops were dispatched to Saudi Arabia. Since then, affixed to some Revell military hardware models, are yel low stickers featuring an oil derrick and the slogan, “Proudly Serving in the Mideast; Operation Desert Shield.” Produced by California-based Genentech, Inc., the vaccine is a ge netically engineered version of a ma jor protein called gpl20 found on the acquired immune deficiency syn drome virus. diet not oecome mlected alter being exposed to the virus. More than 50 human volunteer! now are taking the vaccine at Walter Reed Army Institute of Researchii Washington, D.C. The volunteers have tested posi live for the HIV virus but havenol yet developed AIDS. The tests ate expected to last 10 months. The chimpanzees given the vac cine here by veterinarian Jorg Eich- berg at the Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research developed stronger defenses against AIDS and “Since the immune system of aa infected individual is able to figl the virus during a long latency pf riod, a vaccine may be able to boo? the body’s immune system and fur ther delay illness,” Dr. Arthur) Ammann, director of clinical re search for Genentech, said. r MSC VISUAL ARTS Who, What, When, Where Carolyn Utigard Thomas, Corpus Christi Water Colorist, will have a one-person-exhibit at Texas A&M University throughout December. Carolyn will be demonstrating from 10 a.m. to 12 noon, and from 1-4 p.m. Tuesday, December 4th with a reception at The Memorial Student Center J.L i$j Gallery. $1 TT 1 By D Of TI wintt build mear Texa Nt □ / Harr □ * turr