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...bash for 8,000 of its employees and beneficiaries that included outdoor concerts, a chicken barbecue and performances by Sesame Street's Big Bird, whose creation was funded by HEW. The price of the whole thing was $15,000-no small sum; yet, based on an eight-hour working day, the cost amounted only to about what HEW disburses every second...
Juggling morning exams at the Holyoke, Mass. Holiday Inn, with afternoon NCAA playoff baseball games, the Crimson diamond squad sat through an eight-hour rain delay (a whole semester's study time for "Boats") before losing a pair of shutouts to eliminate themselves from the tourney...
Paradoxically, May Day is not officially celebrated in the United States, although it originated here. Anarchist workers in Chicago spearheaded a drive in 1886 for the eight-hour working day, an effort met by police violence and official repression. Five of the anarchists were unjustly hanged...
...Sunday WHRB will broadcast their 20th annual Spring Folk Festival. The line-up, featuring several of Boston's best folk musicians, should make tuning-in worthwhile--but barring bad weather, you would do better to make the trip to Sever Quad and catch at least some of the eight-hour festival live. The performers will include Guy Van Duser, Dorothy Carter, Tina Welsch, Pete Kara, Joanne Cipolla and Strings Attached; the first set begins at noon...
...folk orgy" sponsored by WHRB has been held semi-annually, fall and spring, for the last 15 years. "It's an eight-hour, non-stop, live performance in front of an audience simultaneously broadcasted over the air," Julianne Chatelain '79, publicity coordinator for the orgy, said...