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w1 23 ThursdayNovember 51987Star Tribune PEOPLE Quote off the day Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher admonished a Spanish tourist who curtsied to her: "You don't do that to me, my dear. I'm only in politics." Life in Minnesota Frances Sonnenberg of Edi-na writes, "I love parades and have been to many in my lifetime. My first recollection of one goes back to Nov. 11,1 918, when at age 13 1 arrived in Minneapolis with my sister on the first Armistice Day. Minneapolis was a sea of happy faces, and we were practically eaten up by the tumultuous crowd on Hennepin Avenue outside the Great Northern Depot.

But last week's Minnesota Twins parade topped it. I was thrilled to watch it on TV while three of my granddaughters plus one great-grandson attended the parade. Congratulations, Twins! Do you have an anecdote to tell? Write to Life in Minnesota, Star Tribune, 425 Portland Av. Minneapolis, Minn. 55488, and include your name, address and phone number.

ItOVtl'f' ROOUCEO'iN COOPERATION WITH THE 'NATIONAL COMMITTEE fOH PREVENTION OF CHII.OASUSEV )a I) (TO )' I Am 1 tl7 uNt Tall order filled for 8-foot-1 man The world's tallest man, 8-foot-1 Gabriel Monjane, has undergone a successful operation to replace bone in his hip. Mcnjano, 42, a Mozambique native, underwent six hours of surgery at the Sand-ton Clinic in a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. The clinic added an extension to one of its operating tables to accommodate him. The $4,000 operation was paid for by a group of South African businessmen. Monjane injured his left hip in a fall in 1970.

He underwent an unsuccessful operation in Portugal that left one leg shorter than the other and forced to him to use a cane for walking. The Guinness Book of Records lists Monjane as the world's tallest living man. Women and education Women from 22 countries gathered Wednesday at Mount Hol-yoke College in South Hadley, to discuss the state of women's education around the globe on the anniversary of the nation's oldest women's college. The conference will include a speech Friday by British politician Shirley Williams and will end Sunday, anniversary of the school's founding in 1837, with a ceremony honoring Southern novelist Eu-dora Welty and others. The organizers made trips to Africa, Asia, Central and South America to choose the 43 delegates to the International Conference on Worldwide Education for Women and identify problems.

U2 cuts U.S. record Before U2 headed to the Twin Cities, the Irish rock band cut its first U.S. recording Monday in Memphis. The quartet recorded "Jesus Christ," a Wopdy Guthrie News show ratings put ARE on top at 10 The preliminary television ratings for October are out, and the folks at both KARE-TV, Channel 1 1, and WCCO TV, Channel 4, sound ecstatic about them. KARE is pleased, said Steve Saxton, vice president of advertising and promotion, because the figures show that its 10 p.m.

weekday newscast was the most watched in the Twin Cities, as it was in the last ratings period in July. "WCCO has said all along that KARE will not win again," he said, "that the July figures were an incredible fluke. Well, I guess we have another incredible fluke." He said the Arbitron ratings for October give KARE a 16 rating and a 31 share, compared with a IS rating and 26 share for WCCO and a 12 rating and 22 share for KSTP-TV, Channel S. A rating is the percentage of the total market tuned to a show, a share is the percentage of sets actually turned on. Saxton acknowledged that the raw figures haven't been corrected to reflect the impact of the Twins playoffs and World Series games (the playoffs were shown on Channel 1 the World Series games on Channel S).

But he argued that "We anticipate our percentage will be even higher" with that correction because most of the games ran so late that viewers didn't stay tuned for the news. "They're happy with those figures?" asked Ron Handberg, WCCO's general manager. "How can they be? The playoffs and World Series had 70 and 80 shares of the market That's an enormous lead-in audience for both the other newscasts, so we feel very good about the ratings, and I'm serious." also predicted "a real horse race" in November, now that the set for WCCO's 10 p.m. newscast has been revamped. Bob Regalbuto, president and general manager at KSTP-TV, laughed at WCCO's claims of distortion.

"KSTP is perfectly willing to accept the ratings the way they are," he said. "We're not saying they're skewed, we're not saying they're not skewed. I think the fact of the matter is that Channel 1 1 is No. 1 at the present moment." SPECIAL EDlTtOH SPONSORED BY Associated Press fly Vi I I 7 tune for an album honoring Guthrie's work, in Sun Studio, where Elvis Presley made his first record 34 years ago. Lead singer Bono Hewson said the band selected Memphis to record the song because, "We figured the best thing to do was get to the center of it.

This is the center. This is where rock and roll was invented. As we're reinventing it we figured we might as well team up. "The spirit's in the air. They're (Presley, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash) all here.

All these people. And not just in the photographs. They're walking around here. We just can't see them." Chipping away Watching thousands of potato chips tumble down a conveyor belt might be monotonous, but it's gotten chip inspector Myrtle Young on "The Tonight Show" and "Late Night With David Let-terman." About six months ago, Young started seeing things during her eight-hour shift at the Sey-fert Foods Inc. potato chip plant in Fort Wayne, Ind.

Now Young scans the conveyor belt in search of misshapen or miscolored chips, with images of everything from dogs to Yogi Bear and Bob Hope. Untangling the web A special edition of the Spider-man comic book, issued Tuesday, is the latest weapon in the battle agianst verbal abuse of children. mer Night's Dream" with Elizabeth McGovern as Helena. It will debut Dec. 7.

Trivia puzzler What happened at the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa, on Feb. Associated Press The play's the thing Presentation of the 36 Shakespeare plays by the New York Shakespeare Festival will feature such stars as Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline and others who developed their careers at the 34-year-old festival. Festival producer Joseph Papp says the six-year project will cost $33 million. The plan calls for six plays a year, plus television and book adaptations. The first play will be "A Midsum Taking his licks Host Bert Parks got a kiss from Kaeleigh, the winning contestant in the personality segment of Purina Dog Chow's Small Dog Debut, held in Atlanta.

Owner Pat Taylor held the West Highland terrier, which will go on to Atlantic City, N.J., for the finals. emqsejo euBd uj paip ejeM Aam 'own jsbi eu.i jo) peujjojisd jeddog eg) pue sueiBA eiipny Aoh Appng ijsmsuv Crisis exercise New Singapore subway to open The Joint Chiefs of Staff organization will stage a command-post exercise this month to test its "crisis manage ment procedures, the Pentagon said Wednesday. The exercise will be con poreans how to use the system. An official guidebook was published in the four official languages Malay, English, Mandarin and Tamil. More than half of the population and employment centers are within a half-mile of the 42-mile system, 13 miles of it underground.

Officials say a third of the city's 2.6 million people is within walking distance of a ducted from next Thursday to Nov. 20 to test the ability of U.S. military Singapore The new $2.3 billion Singapore subway will start running on a 3.7-mile segment with five station stops on Saturday, several months ahead of schedule and four years after construction began. Trainees have studied ticket dispensing machines, tested the turnstiles, and practiced jostling on the platforms of gleaming new stations of the Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) The government launched a massive publicity campaign to teach Singa headquarters around the world to communicate and plan responses to fo eipeg -9 crises. No military units will be deployed during the exercise.

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