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...from Arcachon. The scene was the annual ideological carnival sponsored by the Communist daily L'Humanité last week in the Paris suburb of La Courneuve-a uniquely Gallic blend of gourmet food, Marxist rhetoric and midway attractions. Nearly 9,300 new members were signed up during the two-day Red fete, which was attended by 1.5 million people. Boasted one party recruiter: "Ours is a Communism with joie de vivre...
Upon leaving Government, Eckstein found himself in great demand as a speaker and consultant to business. In one two-day period, he jetted to Chicago, Denver and San Francisco-and concluded that "there must be a better way to disseminate economic data and forecasts." It was on the plane that he conceived the idea of putting his econometric model and other data on a large central computer that clients could tap into...
...quintet of Crimson linksters was buffeted by gale force winds and a torrential downpour at New Haven on Saturday but still managed to finish seventh out of a field of 28 colleges in the two-day Yale Invitational Tournament...
...noise, lads." Phalanxes of goggled police, whooping and beating their 5-ft. plastic riot shields with batons, charged through mobs of petrified teenagers. When the battle ended half an hour later, the day's injuries totaled 233, including 170 police. Scotland Yard tallied 56 arrests for the two-day carnival, most of them young blacks...
...horse-drawn open coaches past cheering crowds. Indeed, the only touring she and her husband Prince Philip dared was a short ride aboard an army Land-Rover specially fitted with a cocoon of bulletproof glass. Nonetheless, Britain's Queen Elizabeth II had reason to be pleased with her two-day Silver Jubilee visit to Northern Ireland. Racked by warfare between Protestants and Catholics for the past eight years, Ulster was girded for yet another round of violence, punctuated by what the militant Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army had said would be a "Jubilee bomb blitz to remember...