A Little Royalty: Japan’s Princess Kiko has...

A Little Royalty: Japan’s Princess Kiko has given birth to a baby girl, making Emperor Akihito a grandfather for the first time. The royal baby, born just before midnight Wednesday, and her mother are in good health. While her father, Prince Akishino, stands second in line to the Chrysanthemum Throne, she cannot inherit it: Succession passes through the male line.

Cold Cash: Margarita from Siberia knows how to beat the Soviet economic crisis. She strips on her balcony for prisoners at a labor camp next door. Inmates toss money up to her. “During the summer I got 100 rubles a time, but I put my price up in the autumn. That’s inflation for you,” said the 30-year-old. “Some months I earned five or six thousand rubles.” The average Soviet monthly wage is just over 300 rubles. “But it’s seasonal work,” complains Margarita. “In winter . . . the windows freeze so they can’t see anything.”

Name Game: Joe McCarthy . . . Justice . Do those words go together? Some members of the Outagamie County Board, meeting in Appleton, Wis., think so. They want to name a new justice center after Wisconsin-born Sen. Joseph McCarthy, notorious for his hunt for Communists in the 1950s. While Robert Schmieder and Edward Nackers praised McCarthy for his “fight against Communism,” Helen Nagler said: “Naming this the McCarthy Justice Center would be a contradiction in terms.”

It’s Official: Former Philippines first lady Imelda Marcos can have her shoes and her bulletproof bra back. The items will be returned to her when she gets back to the Philippines next month. Marcos fled the Philippines with her husband, the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos, leaving behind 1,060 pairs of shoes, 508 gowns, 427 dresses and 71 pairs of sunglasses, said a government spokesman.