Word: contesters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...respondents proved to be remarkably honest: less than 1% broke the rules by filing more than one application. Among them was a man in Fresno, Calif., who apparently thought he was entering a contest. He bought 125 newspapers, completed the forms and mailed them all in. When the refund checks went out, one was sent to him-for $6.30, far less than what he had paid for the newspapers...
Bell still has a second race to win, of course. In November he must face another political rookie, Basketball Star Bradley, and he will rate as the underdog in that contest. Bradley, 34, a Rhodes scholar and former star forward for the New York Knicks, moved to New Jersey four years ago and began shaking hands and squeezing arms. He used a well-financed campaign to parlay name recognition and celebrity support into a Democratic primary victory over five rivals...
...tiny Haines, Alaska (pop. 1,366), some 200 Canadians were suddenly disqualified last week from the annual Salmon Derby. Exclaimed Contest Chairman David Olerud, owner of a sporting goods store: "My God, they're our neighbors!" In Atlantic and Pacific coastal waters, about 100 commercial fishing boats-60 or so American-withdrew in the direction of their home ports. Both countries then set their diplomats to thrashing out the issue that had divided them: the right to fish off each other's coast...
Courser has just placed third in the sheep-shearing contest won by rangy Richard Levis of East Kingston. During the contest each sheep is as nervous as a kid getting his first haircut. But shearers imperturbably plunk the animals down on their backsides. Then, clutching a forefoot in one hand and huge barber clippers in the other, they race through the shearing, rolling fleece off the sheep's belly like carpenters planing wood. Afterward, spectators see that careless shearers gouge into the tender skin, leaving traces of blood. "If it looks like Raggedy Ann you know one of these...
...today. At worst, Gulf, which denies the charge, could be forced to pay $1 billion or more in damages to companies in the uranium business. McAfee predicts that, at most, the various court actions could cost Gulf no more than $360 million. Last week the company pleaded no contest in the U.S. Government's case growing out of the cartel arrangement, and was fined $40,000, but it still faces a wave of private suits...