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Year after year, in northern France's flat and foggy coal-mining town of Harnes, the girls of the Duhamel textile factory toiled away sewing trousers and parkas. One day in July 1966, as Léon Duhamel was wishing some of his 500 employees bonnes vacances, he was stunned to find that practically all spent even their vacations in dreary Harnes. To remedy that, he devised a scheme of "snow and sew" and this winter put it to the test...
Since last December, the sewing machines of Duhamel girls hum away in a handsome glass-and-pine chalet at 4,921-ft. altitude in the mountain village of St. Sorlin d'Arves, near Grenoble of winter Olympics fame. To this small ski resort come groups of 40 workers from Harnes for four weeks of work and ski; they sew from 7 to 10 and from 4 to 6, get out on the slopes in between...
Tony Kilkuskle was second for Harvard in the Javelin, trailing Alan Miller Brownw who threw 209 ft. 4% in. The ruins Tom Duhamel took the broad with a leap...
...broad jump should get the Crimson off to a 9-0 lead as the Bruins' best in this event, Tom DuHamel, has never bettered 22 feet...
...with a prefatory send-off from famed Authoress Simone (The Second Sex) de Beauvoir. Its simply told case histories of women who needed to prevent unwanted pregnancies aroused the conscience of her fellow doctors. France's leading Protestant theologian, Pastor Marc Boegner, backed her; so did Authors Georges Duhamel and Gabriel Marcel. In their wake came scores of newspaper and magazine articles, radio and TV" programs. France at last awoke to Dr. Weill-Halle's crusade...