Word: winner
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...Congratulations! You are the winner of a weekend retreat in the Bahamas. Enclosed please find your champagne-flight boarding pass." So began an apparent promotional letter from Puno Aero Tours to some 200 seemingly lucky Floridians. On the appointed day, the letter continued, the winners would be picked up for a ride to the airport in limousines. They were indeed picked up -- by federal marshals masquerading as chauffeurs. The would-be vacationers, handcuffed within moments after climbing into the cars, were all fugitives, wanted on charges ranging from embezzlement and grand theft to rape. Puno Aero Tours was a front...
...overall winner of this year's contest is Dan Cray, 18, of Wofford Heights, Calif., for his national-events entry, "Free Enterprise Reaches the Final Frontier," a 675-word story on the new business of rocketing the ashes of the dead into space. Cray, who graduated from Kern Valley High School in Lake Isabella, Calif., last week, is an aspiring journalist and plans to attend Santa Monica College...
Jordana Simone Bernstein, 18, a senior at John H. Glenn High School in East Northport, N.Y., won in the feature category for "Making Headlines," a discussion of the pros and cons of technology. She will enter Harvard University in the fall. The world-affairs winner is Richard Carne, 15, of Mendham, N.J., for his examination of moves toward reconciliation by West Germany and East Germany. Carne is a sophomore at the Delbarton School in Morris Township, N.J., where his article began as a history paper. "I'm extremely pleased -- and very surprised," says Carne. "I didn't think I stood...
...contemporary U.S. art. Hughes is eminently qualified for his subject. He was the creator and host of the 1981 eight-part PBS series The Shock of the New: The Life and Death of Modern Art, and its forthcoming sequel, American Visions. In addition, he is a two-time winner of the prestigious Frank Jewett Mather Award for distinction in art criticism...
...season of notably tough-minded women commencement speakers, Northern Ireland's Betty Williams, co-winner of the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize, told graduating seniors at Quinnipiac College in Hamden, Conn., "Men have made enough mess of the world, and it's about time they moved over." At Texas A& M, Democratic Senator Lloyd Bentsen was more ecumenical in his exhortation: "You are our best hope for the future," he said. "Don't blow it." A sampling of the season's other commencement addresses...