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Gauger followed the marchers to nearby Tahrir Square, the vast downtown center of Cairo near the Nile Hilton and the Egyptian Museum. "From other roads," she reported, "appeared still more demonstrators, converging on the People's Assembly. Now the protesters were no longer chanting slogans; instead, there came defiant cries from the mobs, the sharp crackle of breaking glass and finally the bark of tear-gas guns and rifle fire." Before Gauger got safely home that night, Cairo's flying squads of riot police with their Plexiglas face masks, shields and staves were in control. The last...
...quit as the G.O.P.'s national chairman. A wise forecast: the Republicans promptly began a raucous free-for-all-in the best brawling style of the Democrats-to decide who should get the job. Last week 161 members of the National Committee finally convened in Washington's Hilton Hotel and, after three ballots, settled on a compromise candidate: former U.S. Senator William Brock III of Tennessee...
...told, the job of rebuilding will run into billions of dollars. Nine of the biggest hotels in the hotel district, including the Beirut Hilton, Phoenicia Inter-Continental and Holiday Inn, were so badly damaged that renovation will take at least a year. The stately St. Georges Hotel, grande dame of the district, will probably have to be razed and rebuilt. The light industries, such as clothing, foodstuffs and plastics, that ringed Beirut have also been shattered. In Mekalles alone, 30 factories were destroyed in the battle over the Tel Zaatar refugee camp (TIME...
This Christmas, for example, he and she may bestow upon themselves a $286,125 weekend at the Hyatt resort on South Carolina's Hilton Head Island. At that price, they can have the place entirely to themselves or else share it with 720 of their most intimate pals. For a couple with less time and fewer dollars but more friends, a 135-min. private performance of Circus Vargas, billed as the world's largest tented show, can be had for $47,500, popcorn and cotton candy for 5,000 guests included. For only $2,500 more, Houston...
Drummer Artimus Pyle's recent target was the Macon Hilton, which failed to Include sugar with his room-service order of iced tea. "First I demolished the louvered doors," he recalls. "I tried to throw the TV out the window, but it wouldn't fit. So I splintered everything else." He sighs: "Whew, it always feels better without that tension...