Friday 15
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Gather together, Chicago. This promises to be a one-of-a-kind birthday party. For one thing, the guest of honor will attend in spirit only when Harold Washington’s 66th birthday is celebrated today with an all-out bash at the Charles Hayes Center (also known as the Packing House), 4859 S. Wabash. Harold himself may not be there to dance a jig with Mary Ella, smile that big smile of his, shake hands, kiss babies, and sing “My Kind of Town,” but count on every major progressive politician to try to fill his shoes. The free party is sponsored by Harold’s People, an ad hoc collection of a lot of the same folks who brought you Harold’s 1987 mayoral win. It starts at 7 PM. Call Doretha Fleming at 373-3228 for details.
Sing it, brothers and sisters: the fibula’s connected to the tibia, the tibia’s connected to the tarsals, the tarsals are connected to the metatarsals, and the metatarsals are connected to the phalanges. We’re talking feet and ankles here. Each day an average person’s feet hit the ground 20,000 times with a force that’s three times her or his body weight. No wonder we run the risk of corns, calluses, bunions, enlarged joints, and ingrown nails. But at Lincoln West Hospital, 2544 W. Montrose, we can Spring Into Health by taking advantage of the foot screenings at the hospital’s Foot and Ankle Center. They’re offered every Saturday and Monday from 1 to 4, and Wednesdays from 4 to 8. The screenings are completely free through June 21, but you’ll need an appointment. Call 267-2200, ext. 390.
The State Department nearly went into convulsions when Philip Agee wrote Inside the Company: A CIA Diary in 1969. The book took apart the company’s operations in South America and named agents in Ecuador, Uruguay, and Mexico. Although it tried to get a court order to stop publication of Agee’s writing, the State Department failed. It had to fall back on its favorite harassment tactics to try to keep him from writing–his typewriter was bugged, his American passport revoked. But Agee hasn’t slowed down: he cowrote two other revealing tomes, Dirty Work and Dirty Work II, and just finished On the Run, a personal account of life since the State Department has been on his tail. Agee will tell his story tonight at 7:30 in the auditorium of Northwestern University’s Technological Institute, 2145 Sheridan Road in Evanston. Admission is $3. For more information, call 486-6357.
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