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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 22, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes sunday january 22,1989 faces n places world to be spared computerized cube from press dispatches the inventor of rubik s puzzles does t want his world famous mind boggles to become computer games. I want people to feel our puzzles in their hands and not solve them on a computer screen hungarian inventor Erno rubik said in an interview in new Delhi India. I have no intention of creating com Puter games or letting our puzzles go computer the 44-year-old architectural Engineer said. His first big hit rubik s cube which hit the Market in 1977, grosses"$30 Mil lion to $100 million in annual sales. His latest Puzzle rubik s clock hit the european and american markets in september and 2 million have been sold at $ 12 each. Rubik is in India attending a govern ment sponsored conference on Mak ing of the Earth citizen organized in memory of the late prime minister in Dira Gandhi. Omaha fails to flock the Omaha Ballet had hoped to make at least $20,000 from a performance by Ballet great Rudolf Nureyev. Instead it lost about $ 18,500. Nureyev Drew 2,021 people to the Omaha neb., auditorium Short of the capacity of 2,759. Attendance accounted for $61,500 in ticket Revenue said Thomas Hosier president of the Ballet Board. But the performance Cost about $80,000 to stage including artist fees Hall rental marketing and insurance. He said ticket prices which ranged from $25 to $65, might have discouraged some people from attending and that others May have been concerned about Nureyev s dancing ability Given his age 50. George Burns Furns 93 entertainer George Burns celebrated his 93rd birthday Friday in Beverly Hills calif., by giving away Money $1 Mil lion to a Hospital endowment fund. The Cigar smoking comedian had kicked off a $90 million fund drive for Cedars Sinai medical Center on his 90th birthday with a $1 million Dona the Man who drives you crazy Erno rubik with clock left and cube. A lion manager Irving fein said. As of today they be got $89 million. So he s giving them the extra million As a birthday gift to them fein said. Mcc Ourse of course somewhere out there is a scholar steeped in knowledge of Burrito us Premes whoppers and Ronald Mcdon Ald. That at least is what Washington state University in Pullman is counting on. The school announced it is establishing a distinguished professorship of fast food service. The Post in the school s hotel and restaurant management program was made possible by a $250,000 endow ment from Taco Bell corp. And a Matching Grant from the state. Program director Terry Umbreit said the University is looking for someone who can help build Washington state into the nation s leading fast food educational institution. While that May give Rise to jokes about classes such As French Fries 101 or Spe Cial sauce for the non major it s serious stuff to William r. Bensyl Taco Bell vice president for human resources. As Pur Industry matures our business strategies will become More Complex and we will need trained professionals to help us address a variety of issues Bensyl said. Working in tandem with an educational Leader like Usu gives All of us a Chance to  still have the Raincoat Peter Falk will return to television As Columbo on feb. 6, Abc has announced. Falk made the rumpled detective a household name in the 1970s, and Abc announced last year that he had signed on for a revival of the series. The new Columbo was to have begun in the fall but the writers strike delayed production. Presidential pregnancy a soon the Pitter Patter of Little feet lots of them May be heard at the White House. Millie president and Barbara Bush s Springer Spaniel has spent the last two weeks at a farm near Versailles ky., where she was mated with tug a Springer Spaniel owned by will and Sarah Parish. We believe she s pregnant but we Don t know that for a fact Parish said. Parish said they will know in about three weeks if the 2-year-old dog is pregnant. If she is she Likely would give birth in March. The parishes gave Millie to the Bush is about a year ago. Just gof tired of it All the wheels of the Man s misfortune began turning about a year ago when someone knocked Down a Fence on a vacant piece of his new Orleans prop erty and dumped a truckload of old tires. Others must have figured that s what the lot was for. Now there Are 5,000 old tires on . Kupperman s lot and the new Orleans lawyer is faced with More than just an eyesore. The City Landfill can t accommodate the tires and no one has a Solu Tion. I certainly did t put the tires there said Kupperman. And i feel terrible about the neighbourhood. It s an eyesore and a problem for some of the  a private company told him that it would take the tires away but he would have to pay $2 to $5 a tire. A collector in suburban new Orleans said he would take them if a court had t ruled he can t add to the 100,000 tires he already has Kupperman said. City health director or. Brobson Lutz is sympathetic he s agreed to delay any fines until february. But he said Kupperman eventually has to get rid of the tire pile which is a Haven for rats and mosquitoes. If the tires caught fire he said it would cause a pollution problem. O o too Stuj a Eft a it h stars and stripes bookstores stars and stripes bookstores an All new High suspense shocker Lawrence Sanders the phenomenal bestselling author of the fourth deadly sin and the eighth commandment is Back with an All new High suspense shocker. Timothy Cone the unforgettable detective introduced in the Timothy files returns with a whole new cast of deadly sinners. The place is new York City deep in the underworld of big business where the top guns and the Low lifes Are often interchangeable. The game is greed a High powered hotbed of scandals scams and Gangland massacres. And Timothy Cone is the player who plans to blow it All wide open. Timothy s game is coming soon in paperback for $5.50 to a stars and stripes Bookstore near Vou stars and stripes bookstores stars and stripes bookstores it it Iff too o99 w it  
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