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Along with this new focus, the movement has found a powerful new driving force. Six progressive national groups have combined to form the Coalition for the Campaign Against Public Investment in South Africa. This umbrella group brings together the Quaker American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), Clergy and Laity Concerned (CALC), founded in 1965 by anti-war activists Rev. Martin Luther King and Rev. William Sloane Coffin, the Inter-Faith Center for Corporate Responsibility, which represents 200 church groups, the United Methodists at the United Nations, the American Committee on Africa, and Trans Africa...
...were to criticize sexology professionals, it would be to say that the demands of their work sometimes make them forget that orgasmic sexuality is only a part of life and that lots of people have full enjoyment without it. A case in point is a 70-year-old Quaker woman I knew (Quakers are as sexy as anybody) who was attractive, successful and lovable. Someone once asked her, "Agnes, how is it thee never got married?" She smiled and replied, "Well, it takes a mighty good husband to be better than none...
Alone with this new focus, the movement has found a powerful new driving force. Six progressive national groups have combined to form the Coalition for the Campaign Against Public Investment in South Africa. This umbrella group brings together the Quaker American Friends Service Committee (AESC), Clergy and Laity Concerned (CALC) founded in 1965 by anti-war activists Rev. Martin Luther King and Rev. William Sloane Coffin, the Inter Faith Center for Corporate Responsibility, which represents 200 church groups, the United Methodists at the United Nations, the American Committee on Africa, and Trans Africa...
...laconic sculptor, Isamu Noguchi, 78. Michaelis, a 1979 Princeton graduate, is most successful at re-creating the Ivy League background of the lifelong friendship between George Love, 82, and Donold Lourie, 83. Both men, who went on to become heads of families and the chiefs, respectively, of Chrysler and Quaker Oats, never ceased to view themselves as the golden boys of Princeton's class of '22. Vastly popular leaders at a time when undergraduates spoke of having a college "career," the pair headed virtually every campus organization. "They understood one another with a kind of sweet simplicity," Michaelis...
Even though Harvard dominated the contest, the Quakers started stronger, opening up a 3-0 lead in the first game. Terry Martin then triggered a seven-point rally as the Crimson pulled in front to stay, 9-4. A Penn dink and momentary miscommunication between Nadkarni and the elder Martin aided a three-point Quaker comeback. But superb team defense paved the way to a 15-7 Crimson victory. Ross blocked three shots and Nadkarni fixed two service winners to set the final score. In the second and deciding game Twite led a 12-2 surge as Harvard fought back...