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...protest quieted down until 1982, when the University attempted to retreat on the 1978 commitment. The University asked the ACSR to approve an end to the ban on investment in banks lending money to South Africa. SASC reactivated itself, and packed on open meeting of the ACSR with 300 students. One after another, students including representatives from the Conservative Club rose to urge the ACSR not to change its stand. The ACSR stuck to its original position, and urged the Corporation to maintain the ban The Corporation...
...protest quieted down until 1982, when the University attempted to retreat on the 1978 commitment. The University asked the ACSR to approve an end to the ban on investment in banks lending money to South Africa. SASC reactivated itself, and packed an open meeting of the ACSR with 300 students. One after another, students--including representatives from the Conservative Club--rose to urge the ACSR not to change its stand. The ACSR stuck to its original position, and urged the Corporation to maintain the ban. The Corporation...
Albin too eventually gives in. When Jean-Michel's mother fails to show, he puts on his dress and plays Mamma himself. Though his ruse is discovered, the show ends happily, of course, with the girl's parents in retreat, Jean-Michel accepting Georges and Albin for what they are, and the two lovers-Georges and Albin, that is-walking arm in arm offstage...
...program and learned enough about computers to hold his own with both the programmers on his staff and the young know-it-alls at home. And Schnelker is not alone. This summer thousands of men and women are signing up for the nation's newest form of vacation retreat: the adult computer camp...
...surroundings convey a similar sense of old aesthetics, a retreat in the midst of a modern, frenetic city. The noise of the heavy traffic on a nearby elevated highway sounds at this height like distant surf. Delicate bamboo shades filter the daylight. The color arrangement is restful: low ceilings of exposed wood, off-white walls, pastel rugs of blue, green and gray...