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Scarifying monsters add a dash of sci-fi glitz. They include Kronovores (creatures capable of devouring time), deadly Cybermen (decaying bodies encased in silver garb), the Yeti (a 9-ft.-tall carpet), the Anti-Matter Beast from Zeta-Minor (a bug-eyed sheet of aluminum wrap) and the Daleks, mobile robots who look like milk churns and scoot around intoning...
...spruced up some of their rooms to pursue a segment of the population that seldom flinches at business downturns or high prices. Says Analyst Daniel R. Lee of Drexel Burnham Lambert: "It doesn't cost that much more to offer this. It takes a fluffier towel, a thicker carpet and a little better service. For that, these hotels charge a pretty hefty premium...
...accomplished. While much remains to be done, everything is essentially ready. For the past two years, thousands of workers have been blasting, digging and building heartily. The merriest have been 5,000 teenagers, sweating ten hours a day just a few weeks ago, leveling the ski-jump ramp, laying carpet in the athletes' quarters, working literally for a song at the end of the shift...
...Projects Agency to give key civilian researchers access to military computers, ARPANET could also be reached over telephone lines by anyone with a home terminal and the proper phone number. Hundreds of "tourists" have roamed through the system, many of them teen-agers who rode it like a magic carpet to computerland. The network's lines have been used for Dungeons & Dragons duels and its electronic mail system as a dating service. Far more serious, according to officials, attempts to tap into coded classified data have become increasingly bold...
Cornell's big chance came last in the second quarter, which runner back Harmon galloped nearly halt the length of the carpet until tackled from behind by John Dailey at the Crimson 30 from there Cornell drove to the nine before its drive collapsed. First, after a time out, Maguire took too long calling his signals. Then at the 14 the whole offensive line moved before the snap--an illegal procedure. Then Maguire went for paydirt--and tired straight into Dailey's arms at the three-yard line...