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...spring that vacationers could each spend no more than about $425 abroad. Thousands of French travel agents took to the streets for banner-waving protests that helped force the government to ease the restriction. Now President Francois Mitterrand's Cabinet has raised outcries by proposing a ban on slot machines. The move, which the French National Assembly is expected to approve by midsummer, also puts a five-game limit on the number of turns that can be won on video games and pinball machines. Pouted one newspaper: "They've even frapped our innocent flippers...
...Slot machines are a big business in France and a mainstay of many bars and cafes. More than 30,000 of what the French call machines a sous (penny-in-the-slot machines) swallowed up some $2 billion in francs last year in 3,000 watering holes and arcades around the country. A machine offering a popular game like jackpots costs nearly $3,000 but may bring in up to $15,000 a month. The slots can be vital for attracting patrons to many cafes or bars. Complains one Paris publican: "If you don't have machines in your...
...less promising prospect for theatrical adaptation could hardly be imagined; it is difficult even to conceive of what convinced the mainstage selection committee to lavish a coveted slot and budget on so ill-conceived a venture. And in viewing the results, one is reminded, sadly, of the mathematical axiom that zero, no matter how many times, multiplied, can never equal anything but zero. A typical verse from any of Maurice Sendak's clever, malicious little tours de force--take "Stir it once, stir it twice, stir it chicken soup with rice"--means virtually nothing, and therein lies its charm. Blow...
...Nittany Lions. "We've been experimenting all season, trying to get together three really strong pairs," Fish said. "We've had two strong ones in the past, but we need three." The only paid that had played together before was Warren Grossman and Rob Loud in the number two slot. The duo downed Penn State's Bryan Crist and Brad Shobakon, 6-4, 6-2. "They were an O K team that took a while to get going: they really didn't measure up to some of our California competition," Loud said afterward...
...McGrath, department administrator of the department of biochemistry and molecular biology, is filling Orf's post until a replacement can be found. McGrath said yesterday that the Department is advertising the opening in The New York Times. The Boston Globe, and The Washington Post and hopes to fill the slot by late spring...