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The Washington State Fisheries Department, noting that the octopus population in certain areas of Puget Sound is being reduced, has issued a stern warning that wrestling octopuses will no longer be tolerated. Said a spokesman from the American Museum of Natural History when he heard of the activity, "This is sport?"

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The New York Knickerbockers have Earl (the Pearl) Monroe , whose distinctive nickname is responsible for the one given to a star of the Wayland ( Texas ) Baptist Flying Queens who reached the semifinals of the AIAW basketball championship (page 50). She's known as Pearl (the Earl) Worrell.