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...children played games, listened to an impromptu concert by the Krokodiloes, and danced to the Harvard songs and show tunes of the Harvard band, said Elisa Fernandez '88, who, with Melissa Bayer '88 and Margaret Watt '88, co-organized the event. Afterward, the children were shuttled to the Science Center to see a special showing of "Superman...
Inouye, the chairman of the Senate committee investigating the Iran-contra affair, said the President "knew much more" than the White House has admitted, but Reagan said in an impromptu encounter with reporters yesterday he had "no detailed information" about the private network...
University workers yesterday foiled the plan by entering the building through a system of underground tunnels, but afterwards students confronted the university regents en route to a regularly scheduled meeting and coerced them into holding an impromptu open forum...
Temperatures in Paris dropped to 10 degrees. At midweek a 5 1/2-inch snowfall turned the French capital into a winter fantasy land where students waged impromptu snowball fights and cross-country skiers trekked across the Champs de Mars near the Eiffel Tower. Following the lead of President Francois Mitterrand, who deployed army troops to stricken areas across the country, French Premier Jacques Chirac mobilized some 1,800 soldiers to help remove the snow from Paris streets. The government ordered two Paris Metro stations to stay open all night to help shelter an estimated 15,000 homeless men and women...
Eyes on the Prize is indispensable not just for its lucid treatment of the milestones of the era but for its keen eye on less noted events. A tense encounter between a band of demonstrators and a deputy sheriff on the streets of Selma, for example, turns into an impromptu "debate" between people from different planets: "Do you believe in equal justice?" "I don't believe in equal nothin'!" The narration by Julian Bond is admirably restrained, and - those interviewed (from such movement leaders as John Lewis and Stokely Carmichael to old foes like Alabama Sheriff Jim Clark) look back...