European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 9, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 18 the stars and stripes Friday August 9, 1991 faces n places Airport workers from wire reports just when you thought you had seen your last Little yellow Happy face a those silly smiling relics of the 1970s a and were almost certain that the phrase a have a Nice Day had been banished from Ordinary conversation the port authority in new York City has decided to go one better. It is spending $90,000 to teach workers to say a have an Airport Nice  As phrases go it is not As elegant As a line from a Shakespeare or Robert Frost or As Slick As a slogan from Madison Avenue. Purists even complain in the nicest Way of course that it is ungrammatical. But wednesday 50 people who work at the new York areas three major airports were saying it in unison just As nicely As they could under the direction of a ventriloquist who has both a doctorate and a Dummy. The Dummy a name is Mickey Malarkey. The ventriloquists name is Roy Langer. He works for a Florida consulting service that developed a training program for taxi Drivers called a Miami  As Langer freely admits what he teaches is a Good Deal different from that shoot Mem up television program. He also admits that he is no Don Johnson but he was on television once he and Mickey got their big break on the Horn amp hardart children a hour in the 1950s. Has new York suffered a decline in niceness of late Langer said no. And Curtis Dennis a port authority official said the airports were not exactly not Nice before the training session wednesday. A but the new York Region has a reputation for being kind of uninviting Quot Dennis said. A a it a difficult to get away from the negative  he told the Airport workers a taxi dispatchers bus Drivers ground transportation clerks who Deal with frazzled passengers a that being Nice did not mean grinning from ear to ear All Day Long. A walk around like that and people will think you re a Moron a he counselled. But after listening to Langer and looking through a Workbook he had handed out some people at the training session said they did not have All that much to learn. A a in be been Nice All my life a said Rodrigo Diaz the manager of safety and training for Hudson general bus co. A a others had less than Nice things to say about having to say a have an Airport Nice  a a that a stupid a said Leroy Hill a bus Driver. A a it a what they want so of course ill do it. But i prefer just a have a Nice  a others said they would be nicer if the passengers were. A the most common thing is they Start cursing you a blowing their own horns -"1richard Claus left and Timothy Jones toot a few notes while submerged in a hotel swimming Pool in Daytona Beach Fla. The two members of the London symphony orchestra decided to get in some practice and create a few bubbles at the same time. Said Louie Levine a taxi dispatcher at Laguardia Airport. A once in a while they use physical Force but the police Are always nearby. Also in a very  for the record Levine said he is 5-foot-10 and weighs 400 pounds. Surgical performance a radio talk show Host in Houston underwent a Vasectomy live on the air to encourage other men to consider the procedure rather than Force their wives to go through More complicated surgical sterilization. A a it a Over a Dan Patrick of Kiev am said of the Brief surgery. A a it a that simple folks. Its like nothing happened. I feel no pain. I feel absolutely Fine. A if i can do this Guys you can do it for  Patrick underwent the procedure in the office of his urologist or. David Mobley who also was live on the air during the surgery. The no Scalpel operation done under local aesthetic used a chinese technique in which no incision is made. 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