PREMIUM SEATING? It will be a tough...

PREMIUM SEATING? It will be a tough job to reinstall the 17-ton Sony Jumbotron scoreboard on Anaheim Stadium’s left-field roof that fell in Monday’s quake. But maybe even tougher, once that’s done: How do you persuade people to buy tickets for the seats right below it?. . . . “You hire a bunch of experts who determine that it is safe,” says stadium General Manager Greg Smith. “It’s the same as driving over the freeway bridges. We won’t let anybody sit there until it is safe.”

THREE-WAY WIN: Bahia Wilson gave up a year of her time to serve on the 1993-94 Orange County Grand Jury. While she says “it’s the best job I’ve ever had--I really feel like I made a difference,” Wilson has concerns that the grand jury doesn’t represent the county’s growing diversity. But it may next time. . . . Thanks to efforts of her special committee, applications for the 1994-95 grand jury show a marked increase in diversity in age, gender and race. You can still apply, through Jan. 28.

WHAT ABOUT HILLARY? UC Irvine economist Richard McKenzie, the author of 16 books, voted for Bill Clinton in 1992. So how’s Clinton doing after one year, in McKenzie’s grade book? Uh, D+. . . . And that’s only because McKenzie gives the president a B in international trade--McKenzie gives him F’s in tax and labor, and D’s in just about anything else economy-related. . . . McKenzie predicted for 120 local business leaders at an Irvine breakfast Thursday that Clinton will not only fail to get reelected in 1996, he won’t even win the Democratic nomination.