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...They have a great deal in common--they are tired of their lifestyles, tired of courts, tired of running. And they are all looking and working for an escape from the chains of drug addiction. The group is largely self-supported, raising money through fairs, car washes, flea markets, dances and other community events. A professional teacher prepares residents for their equivalency diplomas; a court liaison works for residents who are fininshing prison sentences. In the cellar of the old school that houses this therapeutic microcosm, heaps of food stuffs and building materials of all kinds rest as testimony...
...been given the final descision. Go ahead, he said, according to department spokesman David Rosen. Moreover, at the tenant meeting, a sign-up sheet was passed around, a single piece of yellow lined paper torn from a legal pad. The HTU, which had in mind projects such as a flea market, asked all in attendance to put down their names. And everyone did, everyone except Erickson. He put down a name, but it wasn't his own; as far as anyone can make out, his scrawl read "K. Fredrickson." And there is no question about his address, which he lists...
After a period of apocalyptic rhetoric, Californians generally took the spraying in stride. Residents of the infested areas were bombarded with information on the safety of the chemical, which according to state lexicologists is only one twenty-fifth as toxic as the pesticide used in flea collars. Brown's fears notwithstanding, state officials said it was safer to spray from the air than the ground. Reason: the Malathion is mixed with molasses, sugar and yeast and falls in coffee-graint-size droplets that cannot be easily inhaled. B.T. Collins, 40, director of the California Conservation Corps, gave the most...
...young ex-serviceman at the door of Edward Eliçofon's Brooklyn home had a knapsack full of paintings for sale. They had been bought at a flea market in Germany, the young man said. Eliçofon, a lawyer and passionate collector, was intrigued. He did not know, on that afternoon in 1946, that what the man offered was a collector's dream-and ultimately, a $10 million disappointment...
Barcelona, like Madrid, has little to offer in the way of traditional Spanish atmosphere. The main thoroughfare of the older part of the city. Las Ramblas, resembles an enormous flea market. Peddlers line the central strip, hawking birds, animals, jewelry and pornographic magazines...