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...fruitless search for the holder of the lucky ticket had become a national obsession. Last week, nine days after the winning six numbers in Canada's interprovincial lottery were announced, the country's jackpot fever finally broke as Stuart Kelly, 57, and his wife Lillian, 54, stepped forward in Toronto to claim the largest lottery prize ever won in North America, a tax-free check for $13,890,588.80 (or more than $11 million U.S.). The Kellys had spent the previous week doing "a lot of sweating" with their lawyer as they tried to figure out what...
With only two months remaining until the March 25 elections, campaign fever is high in El Salvador, despite the continuing violence of the government's war against some 10,000 members...
...lottery payoff was the largest for a single ticket yet recorded in the U.S. or Canada. To play Lotto 6/49, ticket buyers chose six numbers between 1 and 49. The prize money mounted as each drawing failed to produce a winning number. The fever touched nearly everyone. Winnipeg Art Dealer Alan de Boer seemed to say it all when, finding himself in a lottery line, he admitted, "This is unbelievable. It is against my nature...
Shake-outs and cutbacks are likely to continue. Says Lee Isgur, a leading video analyst with Paine Webber: "Cost-awareness fever has struck. The previous period can be looked upon as cable TV's infancy...
Birth control was so rudimentary that pregnancies came annually. They were both painful (until chloroform appeared in 1847) and dangerous (childbed fever was not solved until the 1850s), but Charles Goodyear vulcanized rubber in 1839 and soon thereafter got his first patents on birth control devices. More than a century before the famous Pill, the sexual revolution inspired by contraception was under way. The cultural leaders preached against birth control, even prosecuted its advocates, but that only spread the news. Contraceptive devices sounded "perfectly revolting," as one California matron wrote to a friend, but "one must face anything rather than...