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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 28, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes thursday May 28,1987 faces of places new York subway a dry warm place to play from press dispatches hundreds of musicians blew strummed or pounded instruments ranging from bagpipes and banjos to vibes and violins tuesday trying out for the priv. Liege of passing the hat on new Vork City subway platforms. Sumo drive sumo Orff thing f Junior Champion Kong Ihil swings a Golf club at a Tokyo driving Tonga. He of nod Tho sur no wrestling championship tournament there with a 12-3 retard. It s a Nice dry warm place to play with a guaranteed audience said Martha Sanders a drummer with a broken Arm who played a Tambourine instead for the audition of her band the ninth Street stomp cars. Ever time we play we hand out business cards and get  the metropolitan transit authority is trying to formalize what has been a new York tradition for a years Street musicians on subway platforms. In he past such minstrels were either chased away by Iran sit police or ticketed for soliciting. But the rules were changed last year and now the Meta is trying to encourage participation. We arc bringing the arts to a non traditional audience instead of trying to bring them Here said Lenore Gale a spokeswoman for symphony space a non profit performing arts Center that is coordinating the music under new York program for the metro Politan transportation authority. A 575,000 Grant from general electric is paying for the program. Guinness Tennis record after playing Tennis Tor about 100 hours a couple players found the balls have halos and the Boundary lines look bumpy the two established a Marathon Tennis Mark for the guinness Book of world re cords in Reno Ner rain fell i he wind blew lightning flashed and their eyes played tricks on them but by 2 31 . Monday Bill Victor and Mark Humes had been playing Tennis continuously for 117 hours. So they played for three More hours. Victor Tennis coach at the University of Nevada Reno said he Haj trouble seeing sunday night and monday morning and Hough the balls had halos. Humes who coaches at Reno High school said he kept seeing bumps in the Tennis court s White bound Ary lines. Humes firs made it into the guinness Book in 1983 with a 116-hour Marathon. That was broken two years ago in Lafayette la., when Mark and Jim Pinchoff added an hour to h is Lime. After reaching the 117-hour Mark on monday Humes and Victor decided to tack on a few More hours to assure heir place in the record Book. They finally quit at 120 hours and 9 minutes. Marrying on the run an Ohio couple began their married life on the run after exchanging wedding vows at the Start of a 20 Kilometre Road race. Ken pols of Clavton and his Bride Linda Lucido of Beallsville were wed at the starting line of the 11 the annual distance race it downtown we Ling . On saturday. The Bride wore running shoes. Al 1 18 38 after the Start Fuls carried his wife Over the finish line. The newlyweds said the race was the most approx Piatt setting they could think of for their wedding because they met at the 198s race and became in. Aged at last year s race. Lucido said her parents were quite surprised when they heard hat their daughter s wedding would take place at a 20-Kilorocier race. They looked at me funny. They wanted to know Why we could get married in a Church she said. Krypton Heads the list Krypton the fictional planet where Superman was born is incorporated and now doing business in ver Mont. So Are magnesia 24, Coba 39, circa 91, cereus 140 and scores of other exotic sounding names Courtney Price of Middlebury said he incorporated 103 companies in a single Madcap Day naming Many of the infant firms after an element and ils atomic weight including Krypton 84, it s simply a cataloguing technique Price said declining to comment further on his businesses. We really Don t care what somebody wants to Cail a corporation As Long As the name in t already taken said Secretary of state James a Tagus. Not that that s a problem Here Courtney spent at least $3,605 for his company naming Binge Given the minimum 135 slate fee for an incorporation. It s nol unusual for perhaps a handful of corporations to be formed by the same organization simultaneously but 103 is unusual Douglas said. Llama farm brings rewards Mark and Karen Brant of Maybee mich., thought a Llama would make a Fine pet on their 47-acre farm until they teamed it would take $ 12,000 for a pair of the Distant relatives of camels that Are native to the and Csc but after initially considering that too expensive Brant decided that if Llamas were Worth so much he d go ahead and Purchase two raise More and possibly earn a profit. Today the brants have 67 Llamas on 10 acres of pasture. We thought it was going to be a Hobby Brant said. It s become a Little More than i  Llamas which resemble Small camels without humps arc raised for their Wool and for use Ai pack animals a duty in which they Ore replacing hours in some areas. There arc 12,000 to 15,000 Llamas in the United St to said sue Rolfing of the International Llama association. 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