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Players do not have to be Minnesota Fats to enjoy making balls go click- plunk into side pockets. "It's an addictive sport," says pool marketer Barry Dubow. "As soon as you sink two in a row, you want to get three." That simplicity of play, coupled with the change in atmosphere, has attracted new clientele, including women. Says Renert: "Women come by themselves, they come in groups, and they come with...
Visitors almost did not get to see Graceland at all. By 1981, four years after Elvis died, taxes, security and upkeep cost some $400,000 a year. But, says Soden, "you couldn't just plunk down a FOR SALE sign out front. There are people buried up there." Also, Priscilla Presley, Elvis' ex-wife, did not want to part with the home. Although she divorced Elvis in 1973, Priscilla is the mother of his only child and heir, Lisa Marie, 20, and remains an executor of his estate. She gave the go-ahead to turn Graceland into an Elvis museum...
...Russa's side, routinely the last piece in the game is Dennis Eckersley (although there is a more onomatopoetic reliever named Plunk). Eckersley stands for both the dream of the fall classic and the reality of winter. After wandering 13 years as a starter, he settled into the Oakland bullpen and commenced saving what has seemed to be every game. When the World Series is over, though, another appearance awaits. He is due in Colorado to testify for an older brother facing trial for kidnaping and attempted murder. The case was postponed in part for the games...
...plunk them down on Ohiri Field this afternoon to face the Crimson, who haven't lost a game at home since October...
Thirsty West Virginians who plunk quarters into soda machines help finance a state medical school. Cigarette smokers in Washington State cough up $31.7 million a year to clean Puget Sound, while home buyers in Maryland pay transfer fees that help buy new parklands. This practice of earmarking taxes for specific government functions is growing steadily: at least 18 states have adopted targeted taxes since mid-1984, and dozens more such levies -- for schools, police, roads, drug-abuse treatment -- are pending in states from California to Michigan...