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...Richard Daley, the late mayor's son, says a few words but looks uncomfortable speaking on this side of the fence and disappears soon after. The minister is grateful anyway. In the background, the police car is parked, the tennis courts are full, and the people are enjoying a potluck dinner...
...rock fans chanted lyrics, swayed from side to side, and occasionally danced in the grandstands to the thumping sounds and prancing antics of their daringly costumed, idolized performers. But most male haircuts in the audience were trim and short, and there was no topless boogying, unabashed sex or potluck...
Time: Christmas 1975. Place: a comfortable apartment on Manhattan's West Side. The members of a New York chorus and orchestra, having failed to raise money for expenses, have had to cancel their planned performance of Handel's Messiah at Carnegie Hall. After a potluck supper, the singers and some of the instrumentalists squeeze into their conductor's dining room to perform the work for themselves and a few friends...
...King school, parents of almost all the 325 students attend monthly curriculum conferences, report-card meetings and potluck suppers with the school staff. Some 25 parents assist teachers in the school for 10 hours a week at $2.56 an hour. The program involves other expenditures for a Yale social worker and four special consultants. In all, it costs $35,000 a year. Says Dr. James Comer, the Yale psychiatrist who launched the program: "If the money isn't spent at the school level, it will ultimately be spent in far greater amounts to cope with delinquency and crime...
Attla, a veteran on the sled-dog circuit that has grown to 400 races a season, made close to $20,000 last year in purses. (The money is raised by such diverse off-season activities as bingo and potluck suppers.) He finds the kicks at least as compelling as the cash. "There's no other sport," he says, "where you have to control 16 animals at one time." There is probably no other winter sport so expensive either. A beginner itching to compete in the "unlimited class" (seven or more dogs) can expect to spend...