Word: hourlies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have been a morning rendezvous for two unlikely figures. One was a watchful policeman cradling an automatic rifle. The other was Assembly President Jacques Pierre Michel Chaban-Delmas, 54, togged in a track suit. Under the eyes of his security guard, Chaban-Delmas would jog determinedly for half an hour, then do 90 minutes of Swedish exercises in the Hôtel de Lassay, the official residence that the Assembly leader occupied with his second wife, Marie-Antoinette. Then it was off-literally on the run-for Palais-Bourbon and the ornate chair he has occupied for the past eleven...
...ritual than many of the guests at the ceremony: 4,000 will be seated within the castle walls, but only 2,500 will be able to witness the actual investiture because of a protruding buttress. Space within the castle walls is so limited that directors of the six-hour production were forced to choose between feeding the guests or providing lavatories for them. There will be no food, so the assembled dignitaries will be forced to smuggle in their own champagne and caviar. If they want a memento of the occasion, they can take home their chairs as souvenirs...
...delegates gathered at the grimy Chicago Coliseum on South Wabash Avenue, straggling in past police taking their pictures, schism dominated the proceedings from the first hour. Members of the two main opposing groups even looked different. Most of those with beards, jeans, sandals and other casual clothes supported the relatively moderate program of the S.D.S. regulars to extend their efforts to high schools as well as to organize community-action projects in poor neighborhoods. Their Marxist challengers, the highly disciplined Progressive Labor Party radicals, were generally neatly barbered and shod, some even wearing suits and ties. Known as the "shorthair...
...national office, to admit reporters (after payment of $25 and signing of a security pledge) was massively defeated by 90% of the delegates. The defeat was the first of a series of humiliations for National Secretary Michael Klonsky, 26, and Interorganizational Secretary Bernardine Dohrn, 27. The decision after an hour's debate was to UPI bar the "capitalist press" and prohibit any news conferences during the convention...
...Munson protests the rising cost of plastic baby pants (69? a pair v. 29? less than two years ago) and of teen-agers who come in as "mother's helpers" four mornings a week (they now charge $1.25 an hour, up from 75? a year ago). She has furnished the house with used pieces rather than new furniture. She thought of economizing by making her own clothes, but concluded that there would be no saving "because the price of fabric has skyrocketed. To make an average dress, including lining, costs...