Booked to Fly: George Bush will get...

Booked to Fly: George Bush will get a close-up look at Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat while the President flies to Saudi Arabia today. Bush is taking along the book “Arafat: In the Eyes of the Beholder,” by Janet and John Wallach, the New York Times says.

Big Mac, Hold the Dressing: Workers at a McDonald’s in Shawnee, Kan., were confused when they started getting orders for teddies and bras instead of Big Macs and fries. A microphone glitch at a club holding a lingerie fashion show and sale next door sent chatter from the emcee Friday to the headsets worn by workers at the restaurant. Dan Eckman, the McDonald’s owner, called the club and the glitch ended when the emcee moved to another mike.

Fitting Award: Big-league player Dan Quayle will be inducted Dec. 6 into the Little League Hall of Excellence. “He’s the first Little League graduate to be vice president,” league spokesman Steve Keener said Monday in Washington, D.C. “Vice President Quayle was selected for this prestigious distinction on his qualifications as a leader, role model for children and his commitment to excellence,” Little League President Creighton J. Hale said.

Miss This: Stop calling women miss and go back to comrade, China’s Communist Party newspaper urged Tuesday. “Where has this ‘miss hot-wave’ come from in recent years?” the People’s Daily asked in a commentary echoing a resurgence of conservatism in China. The newspaper said that with the reforms of the 1980s, Chinese felt that calling people comrade was “too narrow” and “too left.” But the Chinese word for “miss”-- xiaojie --originally meant courtesan and maidservant and should not be popularized, it said.