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...airlines agreed to increase by some 17% the price of airline tickets bought with pounds. A Scottish football team, traveling in Naples on a tight budget that became even tighter with the advent of the minipound, also had to ante up the difference. Miss Peru, winner of the Miss World contest two weeks ago in London, found her ?2,500 prize suddenly 14.3% poorer. And several cities in Britain reported that the number of inquiries about emigration was suddenly running double and triple the normal rate...
...workers, for their part, find gambling irresistible. For a chance at a prize list worth a mere $200,000, Hungarians last year bought 326 million lottery tickets at an average 20? a ticket. Last week winners of the Czech Artists Trade Union lottery got free trips to the Hermitage in Leningrad and the Louvre in Paris. One Yugoslav physical culture group's lottery is offering hard-to-get Peugeots and trips to the Winter Olympics in Grenoble, France, plus U.S.-made exercise equipment as consolation prizes. And homeward-bound Yugoslav workers stop by sidewalk Daj-Dam ("You give...
Coach Pickett has an impressive squad returning this year. Captain Andy Kopecki will probably wrestle at the 123-pound position, filled so capably the past three years by Howie Henjyoji. The other classy senior returning is Paul Padlak (177-191), who has been a consistent winner the past two seasons, although he rarely pins...
Senior linebacker Bob Machin was the winner of the LaCroix Award for the team's Unsung Hero...
Along with 54 other hopefuls at the annual Miss World contest in London, Peru's lissome (35-23-35) Madeleine Hartog-Bel managed to stay upright through four preliminary rounds. But she swooned gracefully away when she was named the winner. Smelling salts brought her to for the presentation of a $7,000 check and a ceremonial visit to the Lord Mayor at Guildhall. Next will come a trip home for Christmas to the family cattle ranch in Piura, said Madeleine, who sold her car to get air fare to Paris to begin a career as a model...