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...nonviolent disaffected. A graffito observed at the University of Wisconsin: RADICALS ARE NOTHING MORE THAN EXCITED MORALISTS. Nine of the 16 portraits on the FBI's expanded Most Wanted List were those of political radicals. The Weathermen were in hiding. Angela Davis was captured at a Howard Johnson's motel in Manhattan. Many leaders of the Black Panthers were on trial, in Algerian exile ?or dead. Anger remained, but it became reflective or confused. Celebrants of Woodstock became the survivors of Altamont, the California rock festival that ended in a knifing death, and the depredations of the drug culture...
...Sharm el Sheikh the beginnings of another tourist mecca are already in place. For $14 a night one can get an air-conditioned room in an 80-bed motel, watch movies and go scuba diving. Already along another road to Sharm el Sheikh through the Mitla Pass, holidaymakers from Tel Aviv can take a five-day "See the Sinai Battlefields" tour for $98.60. Egged, Israels' biggest bus line, is now planning a 300-bed motel in Sinai at a cost of $500,000. "Why not?" asks an Egged spokesman. "The government has agreed to a 49-year lease...
...Fourth Estate's finest hour came during the long wait for returns the day after election day, when it was apparent-but not definite-that Studds had lost. Surveying the despondent group that was waiting for the returns in a motel room with Studds, a Boston reporter said, "I don't understand why everyone's so unhappy. Why don't you stand up and cheer and say, 'Let's win one for the boss...
...boomtown headquarters of the oil industry. Cadillacs and Lincolns with out-of-state license plates cruise the streets. D.B. Biglane, rotund in his checked suit, swoops in almost weekly from Natchez, Miss., in his rented DC-3. Like most visiting oilmen, he wheels and deals at Tobe's Motel and Restaurant. Owner Tobe Philips, who now drives a Cadillac himself, has nearly doubled his prices and started a 16-room addition. Across town, the B & Z Motel is putting up visitors in trailers on a vacant...
...game plan is not really all that much different from every other," Crone said at the motel where the team stays on the night before important games. "No one has been able to establish a running game against Yale, but we're going...