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...hundreds of thousands of members and sympathizers gathered for their annual fund-raising fair, the fête de l'humanité, in a 37-acre park in the working-class Paris suburb of La Courneuve. While construction workers, secretaries and concierges wrestled with their crepes, foie gras and muscadet in the pounding rain, party leaders were striving to maintain loyalty on the most emotional issue of the day: the shooting down of Korean Air Lines Flight 007 by the Soviet Union...
...grass-roots organizing of political action; a celebration of Black History Month including soul-food night and a lecture on the art of the Benin Kingdom; the beginning of a series of exhibits, lectures and films on abstract art, "The Shock of the New"; winter carnival with Mardi Gras as the theme; in addition to a variety of movies, concerts and recreational and varsity sports, including, yes, a women's ice hockey game with Harvard. There is much to do at Colby provided there is the awareness of surroundings and the initiative to take advantage of a veritable groaning board...
Although the Mardi Gras ended last Tuesday, the marathon did not occur until the weekend to permit use of a twenty-one-mile bridge. "All you see is water--you don't see a soul," Pearson said...
...native of Cheyenne, Wyoming, Fleming (6-ft 3-inches tall.235 pounds) has spent his last seven summer vacations working on rodeo grounds, helping prepare for Cheyenne Frontier Days, an annual festival during the last week of July that Fleming, compares with New Orleans' Mardi Gras...
...venture took hold, however. In its first year, the Coop notched nearly $14,000 in sales and, according to Gras, saved members (the only people eligible then to shop there) $4,500 through sharply reduced prices. Despite some early financial near-disasters and several location changes, the cooperative grew steadily, in 1924 finally moving to a four-story red-brick building at its current location in Harvard Square. In due time, the Coop began distributing profits to members in year-ending patronage rebates, a practice which continues today. By 1925, sales had passed the $1 million mark, membership had topped...