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...scoffed at statistics claiming that a typical resident of the city of Krasnoyarsk eats 156 lbs. of meat a year. Chronic shortages, Gorbachev implied, make that figure wholly unbelievable. On the other hand, he went on, anyone who travels to China reports that meat is "always in the shops, unsold...
...yurts and even split-level homes worldwide, all for the sake of a glimpse into the Seoul Games. But in the Olympic metropolis itself, some spectators seem to be missing. The evidence: as the Games began, more than a third of the 4 million tickets to Olympic events remained unsold, and hotel occupancy was running 20% below maximum. One reason for the surfeit of tickets is a lack of excitement among Koreans for the myriad preliminaries in some sports (soccer, for example) as well as for some entire events (fencing and the modern pentathlon...
Tickets for this weekend's ECAC semi-finals at Boston Garden are on sale now until tomorrow in the basement of Harvard Hall. Prices are $5, $6, and $8 with a Harvard i.d. card. All unsold tickets will be returned to Boston Garden on Thursday, where they will cost...
...even talked of his running for President. That may be difficult if, as widely expected, North is indicted in 1988 by Special Prosecutor Lawrence Walsh. By now, the Olliemania of midsummer is little more than a distant memory, and a California entrepreneur who lost $30,000 in unsold Ollie dolls is converting his leftover inventory into Gorbachev dolls...
...foot-tall doll will retail for $19.95, Hudson says, but the make-over cannot be finished in time for Christmas. In the South Korean factory where the unsold Ollies languish, workers will refit the doll with a new Gorbachev head, complete with the famous wine-stain birthmark on the scalp. The Marine uniform will be replaced by a stylish Italian suit. The clothes will be be padded to mimic the Soviet leader's bulky physique. From the neck down, the plastic Gorbachev is actually a knockoff of Ken, the Barbie doll's popular boyfriend...