Word: prize
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JIMMY CARTER may one day win the Nobel Peace Prize, but a Nobel for Literature probably isn't in his future--despite the impending publication of his first work of fiction, The Little Baby Snoogle-Fleejer. This story of a kindly sea monster who befriends a crippled boy is illustrated by AMY CARTER, now a graduate art student, and will be published in November. How did dad and daughter work together? "Amy's illustrations startled me at first, but I have grown to love them," says Carter, who created the tale for his children when they were young. The Prez...
...three-man, one-woman Publishers Clearing House Prize Patrol moves with military precision. They deplane at the State College, Pennsylvania, airport in crisp blue Prize Patrol blazers, armed with the tools of their trade: Publishers Clearing House balloons, a giant Prize Patrol banner, the famous oversize check, and a dossier on today's winner--one Nellye J. Hall of Clearfield, Pennsylvania. Striding through the parking lot, the team barely acknowledges the gawks and shouts of civilians--"Hey, Prize Patrol, you got a check for me?"--as it boards a rented van and begins the one-hour drive into rural central...
Anticipation buoys these sweepstakes-hardened pros as they embark on yet another chapter in their eternal quest for the perfect "face at the door," one that can be videotaped for use in the company's ubiquitous television commercials. Raw emotion sells, and Prize Patrol members consider themselves connoisseurs of screams and tears. The all-time champion is Emma Taylor of Gary, Indiana, whose joyful if repetitive response to being declared a winner earned her the nickname "the thank-you-Jesus lady...
...Patrol has high hopes for today's visit. They won't be dispensing the year's largest award--1995's grand prizewinner will snag $10 million--but today's is surely the most picturesque: a bright red Jaguar convertible. The Prize Patrol suspects that Hall will be the kind of small-town elderly woman who will look good on tape as she weeps for joy in a snazzy bucket seat (she will, of course, have the option of choosing a $65,000 check instead). No one knows her age, but Prize Patrol leader David Sayer notes hopefully that "Nellye...
...silence on national and foreign affairs. And the way most people see it, China has no reason to renege. It's what some commentators call the "golden goose" theory: Hong Kong's thriving economy, capitalist infrastructure, and status as a hub of world business make it such a tantalizing prize that the Chinese won't dare to mess with it. (Deng Xiaoping himself has been known to say, "To get rich is glorious.") The theory has been so convincing that big business has come to see 1997 not as a disaster but as an unrivaled opportunity to crack the billion...