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...pavilions overflow, and the surplus spills into the streets. Sides of mutton hang along the northern wall of the church of Saint Eustache; mountains of crated cabbages and oranges block the sidewalks for half a mile. Buyers for hotels, restaurants, retail groceries and butcher shops swarm and haggle, crunch over the crushed ice of the fish pavilion to finger white octopuses or boxes of shiny mackerel, delicately press ripe Camemberts and sniff critically at Bries. As dawn breaks, late partygoers pick their way gingerly across the littered gutters to one of the small, famed bistros like...
...microphone,' no special lighting. Dressed in a black academic gown with the red, green and gold hood of an honorary doctor of laws (Houghton College, N.Y., '50), he stood in the cramped quarters of the pulpit before a crowd of 1,200 which had left behind an overflow queue two blocks long. When he began to speak, probably no more than 10% of them were wholeheartedly for him. But Billy's face never lost its smile...
Toynbee's appearance here last fall caused a near-riot as an overflow crowd of 5,000 demonstrated outside the theater. Demonstrators, gathering in lines from Sanders to Littauer Center, scaled Memorial Hall fire escapes and broke into the Psychological Clinic beneath the stage in attempts to enter the meeting...
Back on the podium, he was as loose-jointed as a rag doll as he conducted Shostakovich's Tenth Symphony. The frenzied applause, foot-stamping, cries of "bravo," and rhythmic chants of Mitropoulos continued for a full 20 minutes. Next day, after an unscheduled concert for overflow crowds of the night before, Mitropoulos found that he was not too exhausted for the royal meal, after all. ("The King's expecting me, and I hear he has a good lunch waiting...
Meanwhile, Charles C. Pyne, assistant to the Administrative Vice-President of the University, indicated that the large Stadium parking lot on Soldiers Field may soon be used to house the overflow of undergraduate cars...