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Most of the administrators put up at least token resistance, and Epps resisted strongly. All, however, were shoved out of the building. Thomas was carried out bodily, slung over the back of a demonstrator. As Thomas was carried out, Berg grabbed his head, and Thomas's glasses fell to the floor. Other demonstrators returned them...
...boom is now, in winter. These days, only the lucky find hotel rooms ("We just had to turn Charlie Chaplin away," a clerk at Marrakesh's Mamounia Hotel boasted last month, probably falsely). The rest have to make do with tents, trailers or sleeping bags slung somewhere along Morocco's 1,000 miles of beach. The squeeze in accommodations will be eased by new hotels currently under construction: two motel corporations, Ramada Inns and Holiday Inns, are furiously digging away...
Snowmobiling is snowballing. In the past five years, sales of the low-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...
...research-and-development department never ceases. A Bangor Punta subsidiary, General Ordnance Equipment Corp., which has done very well with its highly profitable Mace, has another comer in a 25-lb. device that generates a billowing smoky haze called Pepper Fog. The $395 tubular generator can be slung and aimed from the shoulder, and it has cleared 400 rioting prisoners from a large building in 2½ minutes. The company, having sold what it had thought would be a full year's supply in four months, has lately increased production facilities fivefold...
Bill Bellinger, 29, makes dumb-looking sculptures that consist of a piece of rope slung from floor to ceiling. Keith Sonnier, 27, puddles flimsily sensuous Dacron on the floor. David Lee, 31, hangs clear sheets of plastic from the rafters. Richard Tuttle, 27, tacks up wrinkled octagons of canvas...