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...quick bit of history: Billy Jack (Laughlin), a Viet Nam veteran and ace of the martial arts, is part Indian, part ambulatory social conscience. He first showed up in Born Losers (1967), a B picture in the motorcycle-gang genre, hit his stride, and the jackpot, in Billy Jack. That picture grossed over $30 million. Kids responded to its softheaded social preachments while turning on to its shootouts and hand-to-hand combats...
...commission has come up with a variety of imaginative answers. It has sent town criers in colonial garb through downtown streets to call out the jackpot numbers. A cowboy has attached the winning figures to his saddle and galloped around a central square shouting...
...into an IBM System/360 computer crammed with information about 250,000 possible sources of financial aid-from corporations, unions, colleges and other public and private organizations-totaling $500 million. For Cole, the computer delivered an individualized printout listing 24 potential scholarships; he wrote to about 20 and hit the jackpot with five. (He had to turn one down because it was restricted to students attending California colleges...
...linage, came up with a shrewd gimmick. It began running daily lists of 51 "losers," numbers not drawn in the state lottery but for which the News offers cash consolation prizes ranging from $10 to $100. Sundays, the loser of the week gets a $500 jackpot...
This spring the quest for the $100,000 jackpot that will go to the championship team has caused more than the usual amount of erratic behavior. The Los Angeles Lakers, listless and barely able to survive their first-round clash with the bruising Chicago Bulls, came roaring back to polish off the Golden State Warriors in five games. The Knicks, helped by an injury that all but immobilized Celtic Star John Havlicek, ran up a commanding lead of three games to one, then lost two in a row. With that the Celtics did something they had never done before...