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...Powerball yields a $100,000 prize. Matching the Powerball number itself, but no other numbers, wins $3. Players can opt to chose their own numbers or purchase "quick pick" tickets with computer-generated selections. The Lucky 13 always went the latter route. But a former group member named Robert Kronk made the ill-fated decision just three months ago to drop out of the group because he wanted to choose his own numbers. Last week Kronk, an optimist about human nature, told reporters, "I'm sure they'll take care of me...I've helped them out before...
...addition, three point specialist junior Nicole Kronk, who tallied 12 versus Lee Strand, was forced to leave the team because of an academic scheduling conflict...
Breland's early distraction may have been caused by yet another controversy. During the competition, Breland, McCrory and Tate left the team's training site, supervised by U.S. Coach Pat Nappi, to work with Emanuel Steward, their private tutor from Detroit's Kronk Gym, home to pros like Thomas Hearns. Indeed, the aura of proto-professionalism hung over the ring throughout the week. Fighters met the press in postfight interviews attended by their agents. Instead of boasting of their knockout prowess, they projected their income for 1987; rather than discussing Olympic strategy, they talked about how soon...
...have long since become : their habits of twisting each other's arms, catcalling and frolicking make grandma trumpet, "Ha! I like to see the whelps rioting!" New to Jalna is Dilly Warkworth, a charmer from Yorkshire who has come over to snare Renny. New, too, is sinister Mr. Kronk, a rascally stockbroker who finds in brother Eden (the family poet of earlier Jalna books) the very sucker he wants...
Readers who are interested in money will enjoy reading of how innocent Eden persuades almost all the Whiteoaks to invest in Mr. Kronk's phony mine. But those who think love is more important will follow with bated breath the duel between steady Renny and giddy Dilly...