European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 19, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes Friday May 19,1989 faces n places scalpers teach students a lesson in economics from wire report Boston University seniors Are getting a graduate course in the realities of Supply and demand. Tickets to this weekend s commencement featuring president Bush and president Francois Mitterrand of France arc being scalped for As much As s100. About 30,000 people 10,000 More than usual Are expected at the ceremony. Each of the 5,600 seniors was allotted four tick-1 cts. We Haven t had to use a sys-1 Tern like this in the past because we be been Able to accommodate everyone but the students response this year has been overwhelming executive Vic president Jon Wistling says. Most students say their parents would t dream of missing graduation or the Chance to l watch two world leaders collect honorary degrees. And for those Mitterrand with Small families or eager to make a Buck the Opportunity to wheel and Deal is attractive. It s a very difficult thing to Stop but it s not something we encourage or condone a calling said of the scalping. Boston president John Silbur helped persuade Bush and Mitterrand to come to the school s Urban Campus. He knows Bush from his Days at the univer sity of Texas in the 1960s and has become acquainted with Mitterrand recently through Nobel laureate klic Wiesel a by professor and Friend of Mitter Rand a University spokesman said. Gator makes him later a teen Ager coming Home late from a Date had an excuse so improbable he was sure his father would t believe him. An Alligator had Given him a Flat. Johnny Collins 18, of Dickinson Texas was re turning about 2 . Sunday when he spotted the Gator in the Road. He stopped about four feel away and beeped his Horn to gel it to move. The animal instead turned and bit a tire until it exploded. It then took a chunk out of the bumper. Collins had backed up to change the Flat when police officer Bobby Epperly arrived. The Alligator said the officer returned to its spot in the Middle of the Road. The bad thing was the Young Man said his father was not going to believe him that his car was at tacked by an Alligator said Epperly who confirmed the damage. But the teen s father John surprised him. He s always been truthful with me. I just told him he better get a report for his insurance the dad said. Nancy s turn coming former first lady Nancy Reagan has turned the manuscript of her memoirs Over to her publisher random House in new York for editing and publication oct. 27 with a first printing of 350,000 copies. A spokesman for random House said the Large number of copies was ordered because of widespread interest in the Book expressed by Book dealers and the general Public. Reagan will make number of television appearances next fall to promote the Sale of the Book including a series of five appearances on Good morning Ameri  the Book is full of anecdotes and Juicy Sto Ries said Carol Schnei Der rand9tn House publicity director. It Reagan gives mrs. Reagan a Chance to answer her critics and the title will be my turn there is quite a lol about astrology in  Hohn Calls on Bakker Jessica Hahn the former Secretary whose sexual Liaison with Jim Bakker crumbled his pal ministry appeared on a radio broadcast tuesday near his ministry and challenged him to a meeting. I Don t want anything Sloppy she said on a Bow s breakfast Bunch talk show which was being broadcast from a bar a few Hundred feet from Bakker s new ministry in Orlanda la. It s never been done to have Jim Bakker and me set Down and Tell our Story she said. I just want the Healing process to Start. I m not afraid of a confrontation. I think you  she said addressing Bakker. Come out Here for five minutes  the station was accepting pledges to pay Bakker for his appearance and had collected $1,163 by mid morning. Bakker however did not respond to the offer. Pav Roffi halts opera Tenor Luciano Pavarotti Hung his head and walked off stage in Pittsburgh during the third act of Tosca after his voice cracked. The curtain was 45 minutes late going up for Mon Day night s performance of the Puccini opera because doctors were treating Pavarotti backstage for Throat problems. The Singer decided to go on but missed a High a Flat. Pavarotti mumbled sorry and signalled the con Ductor to Start again but approached the same note with the same results. I cannot do it. I am sorry he said. The audience applauded after the curtain fell and the House lights came up. A match for the Bush boys the White House came to a temporary halt tues Day for what president Bush described As a dog eat dog Tennis match featuring pros Chris Evert and Pam Shriver against two of Bush s sons. The two women were supposed to have played Marvin and Jeb Bush last year in Florida in a fund raising game Dur ing Bush s presidential race. However the game was rained out. The rescheduled match was rained out a second time this week and moved to an indoor court usually reserved for senators on the fifth floor of the Hart Senate office building. The press was excluded from most of the Evert match but it was Clear during a Brief photo taking session that the teams were evenly matched. Al though none of the players would reveal the final score it was Learned from reliable sources that the men won two sets to one. Soap gun used to slip off a hand carved soap pistol looked real enough to gel a convicted robber a Brief taste of Freedom. Roy Kenneth Sanford 23, escaped from a jail in Perry ga., saturday after he pulled what looked like semiautomatic weapon on three guards and or dered another inmate to open a Cellblock door according to sheriff Cullen Tallon but Sanford who is serving time for armed Rob cry and kidnapping and has escaped before was spotted in a Pecan Grove the following Day and Recap tured. At first glance it looked like the real thing Tav ton said of the gun which was carved from two bars of soap and painted Black. Of course when you looked close you could Tell it was  stars and stripes bookstores stars and stripes bookstores. Wickedly Sharp and scandalous i lil Altemus. The grand old lady of the Van Degan clan which has dominated new York society for decades. Privileged and poisonous by narrow minded she turns a Blind Eye to her son s Brazen life style and fights a. To Stop her daughter from marrying Bernie Slatkin whose name is most definitely not in the social Register. O Elias and Ruby Renthal. 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