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...advance--and more money from Hollywood--than any other first novelist in history. "It's probably good that, once in a while, someone proves the brass ring can be snatched," says Michael Korda, editor in chief at Simon & Schuster. "Otherwise, it's like a casino where none of the slot machines ever...
...Gudeman has any say in it, Harvard will be moving up one more slot...
Standing off Highway 18 on the Pine Ridge reservation is what Slade Gorton would like to believe is a symbol of hope and self-sufficiency. It is Prairie Wind, the Oglala Sioux's venture into Indian gambling. Housed temporarily in two connected double-wide trailers, it consists of several slot machines and two tables for poker and blackjack. The casino's revenues in its 10 months of existence have run from $13,000 to $92,000 a month, of which 30% is earmarked for its investors. Thus far, after expenses, it has provided $10,000 for children's school clothes...
...mischief before they are caught. The men plan to tag Mururoa's buildings with Greenpeace stickers and graffiti, slip notes to some of the press people invited by the French to witness the explosions, write a few postcards of Mururoa and drop them into the PX mail slot, get the French to search for them, and perhaps stall the first test. The stunt is planned as a classic Greenpeace "action," a dead-serious, nonviolent prank executed at considerable peril...
...hysteria continues into the world of infomercials, where TIME's Wendy Cole reports that the company will air a 30-minute "syndicated television special" in 70 major television markets. In an infomercial first, the program will run commercials for other companies, such as Coke, during the half-hour slot which Microsoft purchased, making the commercial appear like regular television programming. "This blurs the distinction between programming and advertising," reports Cole. "But make no mistake, Bill Gates paid for this program. You won't hear anything but good news about Windows...