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Dates: during 1970-1979
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EMILY SCHWARTZ HARRIS. Remembered by her Alpha Chi Omega sorority sisters at Indiana University as a "good dresser," she taught junior high school English for a year in Bloomington. Last year she and her husband William moved to Berkeley. She worked as a clerk typist at the University of California and became deeply involved in radical activities. She headed the Oakland Chino Defense Committee, which raised funds for the legal defense of members of the Venceremos and others accused of aiding a prison escape...
...White River Junction with much distaste. By the time Fitzgerald arrived, he was sick, drunk and sleepless. And during the next few days Dartmouth College "honored" Fitzgerald by holding a seminar in which the professors criticized the script in progress. He left offended, and later attended a party at Alpha Delta at which he told everyone how great he had been until producer Wanger ordered him to leave. When Fitzgerald and Schulberg left, they retired to a coffee shop and dictated a parody script which began, "We fade in on the thin clear cold slope of the ski slide...
While English Playwright E.A. Whitehead has not written anything that closely approximates the caliber of such works, his two plays, Alpha Beta and now The Foursome, show that he is obsessed by the battle of the sexes, and that he has a biting flair for it. Alpha Beta depicted a working-class British couple shedding blood over a bloodless marriage. In The Foursome, which was written before Alpha Beta, Whitehead focuses on four Liverpool youngsters barely out of their teens. In the present off-Broadway production, the setting and characters have been shifted to the outskirts of Galveston, Texas...
...reunions. Insurance Salesman Dave La Vine of Minneapolis is one of the regulars who can always be counted on to hold a great party. This year La Vine blew some $600 outfitting his 40-ft. rented trailer with enough goodies to treat 200 friends, clients and old Sigma Alpha Epsilon brothers. "We flew all the way out here from Manhattan," says Bill Shallberg, who came out with his wife Suzie. "This is where the real pro football fans...
...independent scientific literature supports the contentions of the pamphlet. Articles in Scientific American, Science, The American Journal of Physiology, and The Journal of the American Medical Association have documented changes in mental and physical states during meditation. The light sweat normally present in skin diminishes abruptly, signalling greater ease. Alpha waves in the brain, another indicator of relaxation, grow stronger. The heart beat and blood pressure drop...