Word: thousands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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STRIDING ACROSS the auditorium stage at Babson Institute several weeks ago, Julian Bond appeared almost embarrassed by the standing ovation of almost two thousand people who had flocked to hear him. "It's him...I don't believe it, it's really him," exclaimed an ecstatic co-ed in the front row, a tweedy, horn-rimmed middle-aged man atoned to his wife, "God, he looks worn." The introductory applause kept Bond on his feet for almost five minutes. The air was hot and tense with excitement as people recovered the seats that many of them had come two hours...
...consider it completed until 1947. A bittersweet, erotic story of the doomed affair of a deteriorating geisha and a Tokyo dilettante, the novel shows Kawabata at his best, sensually describing the darker aspects of life, suffering, love and death. Both Snow Country and the later, highly praised Thousand Cranes have been published in the U.S. and Europe. But many of his score of novels are barely known abroad...
...practices are the group's grievances over job training, wages, and unions. However, in these areas the Coop's record is remarkably good. For instance, between July 1967 and April 1968, the Coop ran five training programs for 75 disadvantaged youths recruited through ABCD at a cost of twenty thousand dollars. The Coop pays wages competitively with the other retail stores in the area. Contrary to the opposition's claims, no employee earns under the minimum wage of $1.60 per hour, while the average employee wage is $1.95 per hour. In addition, employees get liberal fringe benefits, including...
...alternative sources for such charity. Presently they could either siphon it out of the Coop's profits, but then it would be taxable and would mean a further reduction in patronage refunds; or they could take it from the Coop's annual charitable contribution, which amounts to about seven thousand dollars, six thousand of which goes to the Community Fund. The Coop just does not have very much money. What money it does earn, it either pays back to the members or plows back into the business. The opposition slate for the board of directors is aware of this fact...
...Arte Johnson, 39, from Chicago, is described by Martin as "the man with a thousand faces, which makes bed check difficult after some of the cast parties." Johnson, who used to do TV commercials and cartoon voices, makes as many as ten complete costume changes each show. He appears as a double-talking Russian, a freaked-out Swede, the German soldier ("Verrry interesting"), a dirty old man and a guru ("Man who speaketh with forked tongue should never kiss a balloon...