Word: alma
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thanks to satellite linkups, clear communication with the mainland is available from telephones, usually in every stateroom. Telex and facsimile machines transmit contracts and newspapers. "We can consummate a deal anywhere," says Guy Tamboni, a New England real estate developer who enjoys long family cruises on his 108-ft. Alma. (The oceans are area coded: Atlantic 871, Pacific 872. Cost to call a yacht: $10 a minute...
Other blacks, however, were quick to reap the benefits of the ruling. By the 1955-56 school year, more than half of all black grade-school children and two-thirds of whites were enrolled in mixed classes. By 1968 Linda's alma mater, Monroe Elementary, had a 25%-white student body. By the 1986-87 school year, not a single Topeka school had a student body less than 6.2% or more than 62% black. Twice during the 1970s, the Federal Government surveyed Topeka's schools and found them in compliance with desegregation policies. Still more striking were steady gains...
GOOD NEWS came to the University's more than 200,000 alumni last week when voting packets arrived for this year's Board of Overseers election. In years past aspiring overseers, all of whom were approved by the University administration, filled the election packets with praise for their alma mater. This year, however, many of the candidates used election statements to take positions on such issues as financial aid, divestment and increasing the number of women in Harvard's various faculties...
Spence has remained silent on his alma mater'spresidential search until yesterday...
...NOTEBOOK: Harvard handed Brandeis starter Phil Stephens (4-1) his first loss of the season...Brandeis Coach Peter Varney (Harvard '71) has yet to defeat his alma mater in five contests; the last Brandeis win against the Crimson was a 7-5 triumph in 1979...The Crimson will meet Penn today in a crucial Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League doubleheader at Soldiers Field...Three Crimson players (Rennier, Pakalnis and McConaghy) are still batting over .400 as the team nears the season's mid-point...