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From: kds@blabla.intel.com (Ken Shoemaker)
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 90 17:17:58 PDT
Subject: East St. Louis is a wierd place...

November 4, 1990

YOU CAN FIGHT - AND WIN - CITY HALL

Walter DeBow, who six years ago won a judgment for $3.4 million in damages
against the city of East St. Louis, Ill., but who has been unable to collect
from the bankrupt city, was given title in September to the city's main
municipal building and the city's 220-acre industrial park as compensation.
(He had sued the city for a beating he received in the city jail that
crippled him.)

KID STUFF

In Natick, Mass., John Patrick McKenna was born at precisely 12:34:56 on the
morning of 7-8-90.

Brent Paladino, 3, just out of diapers and into nursery school in September,
plays golf six days a week in Hartford, Conn., hitting about 300 balls a
day.  His father calls Brent "obsessed": "In the winter, I'll sit in the car
with the heater on, and he'll be on the putting green.

George Hassapis, 6, took 10 minutes and 19 moves to beat U.S. chess master
Orest Popovych in London in August.

SEX, ELVIS AND EGGPLANTS

The India Association of Sex Educators, Counselors and Therapists has set
February 1991 for the first International Conference on Orgasm, in New
Delhi, and has issued a call for papers.

Featured at the June Elvis Presley Impersonators Convention were a
7-year-old Elvis, a female Elvis, a Hindu Elvis and 40 others.  Panel
workshops were held on the serious issues of whether impersonators focus too
heavily on the Vegas era (rather than the Leather era and the Gold Lame era)
and whether there should be a code of ethics for Elvis impersonators.

At least 4500 Muslims have made pilgrimages to Leicester, England, in recent
months to see Zahid Kassam's discovery of an eggplant whose seeds spelled the
name of Allah.  In March another one was found in Nottingham.

ODDS AND ENDS (MOSTLY ODDS)

More that 100 "tobacco rebellions" were reported in Moscow in August because
of the unavailability of cigarettes.  Several work stoppages were reported
in other cities, including some by farmers refusing to bring in harvests.
Twenty-two of the 24 cigarette factories in Russia were closed for the
summer for repairs.  (A pack of Marlboros cost 30 rubles on the black market
- - $48 at the official exchange rate - and a small jar of butts was going for
1 ruble.)

Michael Faircloth, unsuccessful candidate for the senate in Australia,
promised as part of his campaign in March that he would introduce
legislation giving a $7.50 grant to everyone who voted for him.

Chicago's WGN-TV earlier this year reopened its reservations list for the
long-running "The Bozo Show," whose ticket list had been frozen 10 years ago
at 200,000 names.  The station set up a special phone line for the five
years' worth of shows, and 27 million attempts from Illinois alone were made
to call it.  The 140,000 reservations were gone in 5 1/2 hours.

Charles A Hinkle, 38, was shot while in his car in Riverview, Fla., in
August, by a woman to whom he had given a lift home from a bar.  The bullet
passed through the windshield but lodged in his dentures.  Hinkle later told
police, "It's the last time I'm Mr. Nice Guy."

It took 5000 hours in the editing room, but director Armando Acosta recently
finished his two-hour film of "Romeo and Juliet," featuring one actor (John
Hurt) and 150 cats, for premiering at the Venice Film Festival.  Juliet is
played by a white Turkish Angoran, and she and Romeo fight and eat canaries
in Brooklyn and Venice.

The National Association of Brick Distributors presented its prestigious
"Brick Achievement Award" in June to MTV because of the many music videos
that contain brick motifs.  (NABD cited M.C. Hammer's "U Can't Touch This,"
which features 62 seconds of brick walls, and Elton John's "Club at the End
of the Street," which "uses meticulous detail in texturizing the brick" in
the video.)

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