Word: weekend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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DRESSED in old clothes and overalls, the 5,000 suburbanites-men, women and children-looked ready for weekend chores in house or garden. Instead, they were on their way to help thousands of New York City slum dwellers clean, repair, paint and decorate 43 of the city's grimiest, grittiest blocks. By nightfall, when residents gave their guests an outdoor buffet, the scabrous streets were conspicuously cleaner and perhaps a little more habitable, with balloons waving from fire escapes and pastels brightening alleyways...
...crowded that passengers ride on their footboards. The tree-shaded boulevards around the Petit Lac, the garden spot in Hanoi's center, are daily thronged with strollers. The restaurants are full of people, many of them downing breaded shrimp, the favorite dish of Hanoi's residents. Each weekend, the routes in and out of Hanoi and Haiphong are jammed with parents headed for the countryside to visit their children, most of whom are encamped there for the duration, and men and women who work on the city's outskirts hurrying inward to visit friends and relatives...
...folks who live in Union Grove, N.C.- that's between Harmony Love Valley, not far from the Brushy Mountains - believe in being right nice to outsiders. So, when thousands of visitors stream into town on Easter weekend for the annual Old Time Fiddlers' Convention, the residents go all out to accommodate them. Farmer Herman Speece lets herds of autos crowd the cows off his pasture. The boys at the firehouse move the truck out so that people who find it too cold in their cars or tents can spend the night on the firehouse floor. The ladies...
Though the practice is by no means widespread, many companies are helping their former weekend warriors with financial aid, including substantial supplementary pay. Among the leaders is Sears, Roebuck & Co., whose called-up family men can count on receiving the difference between service pay and 75% of their civilian salary for at least four years. Even unmarried draftees who have been with the company for at least 16 weeks, go to induction with an extra week...
Harvard's sailing team placed second to M.I.T. in the Greater Boston Sailing Championships last Friday in the first of four regattas Crimson sailors competed in last weekend...