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tSAT7 OCTOBER 27, 1990 glif Atlanta Imirnal AD CONSTTriTION A-13 tiie I V' JohnSpinKStaff boxes. The dome office has a mock-up of a typical skybox to illustrate her points. Janeen Woelfer, a marketing agent for the Georgia Dome, talks to prospects about the advantages of sky- Sltyboxes: Luxury, privacy have a price U.S. to pay Indians for Michigan land The U.S. Treasury said it will pay $1.6 million to Indians in Michigan's Upper Peninsula for land they gave up more than 100 years ago.

We've been waiting a long time," Myrtle Tolonen of the Keweenaw Bay band of Chippewa Indians said Thursday. "My grandparents and my parents taught us about the Indian money." The checks will be paid to more than 2,070 members of the tribe, said Art Staples, a tribal operations specialist with the federal Bu- reau of Indian Affairs. The tribe's governing body received a matching sum of money several years ago. i I YOUTHFUL LUNG RECIPIENT DOING WELL A 12-year-old girl was breathing on her own Friday after receiving part of her mother's lung in what is believed to be the nation's first live-donor lung transplant, hospital officials in San Francisco said. The operation offers hope to perhaps hundreds of children a year whosuffer from certain lung diseases because transplanted tissue from a relative reduces the risk of rejection, said Dr.

Vaughn Starnes, who led the surgical team. Mother and daughter, who requested anonymity, remained in good condition a day after surgeons replaced the daughter's right lung with a lobe removed from her mother's right lung, the hospital said. CHESS CHALLENGER SEIZES ADVANTAGE: The seventh game of the world championship chess match in New York was adjourned Friday night when challenger Anatoly Karpov wrote down his 44th move and sealed it to be opened when play resumes. Mr. Karpov appeared to have a significant advantage over the champion, Garry Kasparov, when the game adjourned because he had an extra pawn and observers felt he was in a winning position.

Mr. Kasparov had entered Game 7 with a 312-2I2-point lead over Mr, Karpov, but if Mr. Karpov wins the game, the score in the match so far will be tied. The game is scheduled to resume today. DALLAS UNDRESSES FIGGED FIGURINES: Dallas officials relented and allowed the removal of fig leaves covering three nude figurines displayed at City Hall after the artist accused the city of censorship.

Assistant City Manager Levi Davis and city park officials Monday ordered the "Getting Better Ain't Always Easy" exhibit by Lubbock artist Future Atkins covered. By Thursday, city officials had countermanded their decision. MAP-MAKING HALTED ON MAGELLAN: The National Aeronautics and Space Administration decided to suspend the Magellan space-, craft's Venus map-making mission Friday, three days earlier than planned, because a planetary lineup is affecting its navigation and communications with Earth. It will be at least 12 days before Magel- Ian can resume its $744 million mission to use radar to make pictures and maps of cloud-covered Venus, said Jim Scott, mission director at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. N.Y.

DAILY NEWS STRIKE EXPANDS: About 800 New York Daily News editorial workers struck Friday rather than accept management's order to cross picket lines set up by eight unions at the financially troubled tabloid. Management at the nation's second-largest city daily flew in replacement workers to help circumvent a violent strike that began Thursday night when 1 ,800 employees walked out. Compiled from wire service reports "It's the feeling you get when you ride in a limousine. see it a game in that kind of setting is like We're selling alimo ride" Frank Timmerman Marketing director for the Atlanta Hawks 2.S9 boxes ctcloir.3 These 43 firms and groups of individuals have paid deposits equal to their first year's rental on Georgia Dome skyboxes. ''Another 116 clients have signed agreements but have not posted such deposits, according to dome leasing r' Allied Fibers Corp.

APACInc The Atlanta National Group Atlanta Oncology Assoc. Atlanta Organizing Com-, mittee 1 Bank South Bruce Bickley and others Buckhead Beef103 West Delta Air Lines Inc. Dow Lohnes Albertson Empire Distributors Inc. Equifax Inc. Five Kings Inc.

General Electric Co. Georgia Crown Co. Hix Green Buick Co. Richard Heebnerothers Hudgens Management The Insurance House Inc. CJordan Jones Goulding Inc.

Xanier Worldwide Inc. Rick and Diane Lawrence others Long Weinberg Ansley and Wheeler 4 McCalla Raymer Padrick Cobb Nichols Metrac Inc. National Scientific Reynolds Plantation Newman Penter James Co. Inc.Kelly Lundstrom The Peachtree Companies Peat Marwick Main Co. Peterson Management Co.

Portman Companies Powell Goldstein Frazer Murphy Resurgens C. Garrett, M.D. Rollins Associates P.C. Shepard Convention Services IncEdge Equities Smith Gambrell Russell Sutherlin Mazda Inc. Strother Management Trust Company Bank United Distributors United Energy Services WXIA-Atlanta and Omni Coliseum.

"It's the feeling you get when no lines. "People like to feel special. People like to be a VIP," says Frank Timmerman, director Of marketing for the Atlanta Hawks you ride' in a limousine. If you don't ride one too much, you're pretty awed when you get in it. To see it a game in that kind of setting is like We're selling a limo ride." There is one down side to watching a game from behind glass.

"The only negative is you're absent the crowd noise," Mr. Bell says. "But if you choose to, you can crack a small window." Continued from Al lease, which brings the cost of the top box to an eye-popping $1.2 million, the dome has already leased 159 boxes, according to chief skybox seller Dennis Berkholtz. Roughly $30 million in leases 46 suites were leased after Atlanta was chosen for the the 1996 Olympics, he says, although boxholders still have to pay for tickets to use their seats for Olympic games or any dome events other than Atlanta Falcons games. The dome's 1 83 boxes, which rent for $20,000 to $120,000 a year, depending on location, promise private parking, catered dining and access to a lobby and restaurant area that can be reached only by fans paying for skyboxes or special club seats near the boxes.

First devised by the folks who dreamed up Houston's Astrodome, a stadium supposedly inspired by the Roman Coliseum, skyboxes now are among the favored places for corporate Caesars to meet and greet away from the madding crowd. In the quarter of a century that stadium operators have been selling fans their own piece of the sky, boxes have sprung up coast to coast in college and pro football stadiums, at baseball parks, above basketball courts and even alongside racetracks, Mr. Dorsey says. He estimates there now are about 9,000 skyboxes in about 350 sports facilities around the country and that another 200 have skyboxes on the drawing board. "It's the way to see a football game, I'll tell, you that," says Norcross businessman Jim Bell, a Georgia Tech fan whose company's box at Bobby Dodd Stadi- urn is packed with clients and friends before, during and after each Tech home game.

So who's willing to spend up to $500 for a single cushy, air-conditioned seat to watch a football game? "Corporations," Mr. Dorsey says. "The Fortune 500 corporations." And who gets a taste of the suite life? Mostly men. Fully 75 to 80 percent of skybox users are males, with the average age being 40 to 45 and the average income being $100,000 or more a year, Mr. Dorsey says.

In Atlanta, where companies are buying into the dome, corporate fans from firms like Bank South, Coca-Cola and WSB long have had their corporate gos on boxes at Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium, Georgia Tech and the Omni Coliseum. "You pay a premium, but you also really do have a great opportunity to mix with people who are important to your business," says Bo Spalding, spokesman for Bank South, which has signed up for a box on the 50-yard line at the dome. "We feel it's a good value." Skybox sellers and users say they're worth the money for the chance to park in a reserved space and then ride a private elevator to a climate-controlled suite that offers a color television for game replays, wet bar, cushioned seats and a restroom with Autumn -1 Cj iff! fin It I I 1 If 11 7 I i Sofa Sale Choose from beautiful designer fabrics and sumptuous leathers. Create the sofa of your choice and save now! L. jilVAiirii The style you want, in the fabric you want, Delivered in just 35 days.

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