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...slung motor-driven ski scooters (price range: $595 to $1,500) have leaped from 15,000 to 225,000 annually. This season, more than 1,000 snowmobile races and ral lies are being held in the northern U.S., featuring such varied events as the sla lom, jumping and drag racing. Though many of the competitions like to bill themselves as the "largest," "richest," "most unique" or simply "world's foremost," Alaska's annual Midnight Sun 600 Snowmobile Race is indisputably the world's coldest and crudest...
...necessary "divorcement, divestiture or reorganization" of IBM. It is not likely that Jus tice has any intention of breaking up the company. Probably, the trustbusters will use the threat as a bargaining point in working out a consent decree at the end of a case that is likely to drag on for years. Justice mainly hopes to restrain IBM's zeal a bit so that more competition can flourish. IBM called the charges "unwarranted" and promised to "defend itself forcefully." As evidence of the "open and strongly competitive nature of the computer business," it cited the fact that more...
YELLOW SUBMARINE is an elaborate cartoon adventure starring the Beatles in animated form. Although Animator Heinz Edelmann brings off a series of visual puns, the overall result tends to drag at times...
...attack on middle-age values and life styles. The Fugs developed a special brand of buffoonery that included two outrageous onstage stunts now favored by the MC5: removing their clothes and burning the U.S. flag. The Mothers of Invention honed a cutting musical satire ("It's such a drag to have to love a plastic Mom and Dad"). San Francisco's Country Joe and The Fish have focused on the war in Viet Nam as a symptom of national sickness ("Be the first one on your block to have your boy come home...
...must die nowadays often do so off-camera or more quickly, and barroom brawls are also less bruising. As a result, the first victims of TV's pacification drive have been the stuntmen. Employment among the fight-and-fall corps is down 40%. "We used to have nice drag-out fights and make some good money," laments Chuck Hicks, president of the Stuntmen's Association. "Now a guy just pulls a gun and stands there. So we suffer...