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...Colony first heard the news on radio or TV. In Battlement Mesa, a half-finished company town built by Exxon, a few furious workers immediately went on a rampage. They overturned garbage cans, tore down company-owned fence and fired shotguns through the windows of their company-owned trailer homes. In the town of Parachute, 15 miles from the Colony site, men piled into O'Leary's Pub and the Old Bank Saloon, where they drank, pounded on the tables and broke into fistfights. Others, gathered in small knots outside on the streets, simply shook their heads...
Many polo watchers become addicted. Last Christmas his girlfriend gave Mario Mendoza, 37, a prosperous Cuban-born lawyer, a helmet, mallet and lessons at a polo clinic. "Now," he marvels, "I have seven horses and a groom. I bought a horse trailer and a one-ton truck and five acres of land where I'm building a stable with 24 stalls. Next season I plan to have my own team...
...Malibu, Calif., Actress Jessica Lange, 33, hurries from a set of the film Frances to her trailer. There, she lovingly spoon-feeds pureed carrots to her eleven-month-old daughter Alexandra. When the loudspeaker calls her back to filming, Lange hands the child to the nurse and rushes out the door...
Like most career women, Smith will return to work after a few months at home. Although she has not yet chosen a project, she is adamant about breast feeding on the set. "I'll convert my trailer into a nursery," she says. It may complicate her life, but Smith believes the enrichment outweighs the disadvantages. Says she: "I've wanted this baby for so long it wouldn't make sense to start complaining...
...work, he found himself with few marketable skills, a $10,000 settlement from headquarters and $600 in personal savings. He turned to an old friend in the faith, Peter Gregerson of Gadsden, Ala., who runs a regional supermarket chain. Gregerson loaned Franz and his wife a house trailer to live in and gave him work as a handyman. By 1981 Gregerson too had begun to question Watch Tower dogma and resigned from the faith...