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Although Miller Brewing Company gave the SPA--an auxillary and adjunct organization of the Undergraduate Council--a $5400 grant for a concert series this year, this past weekend's concert and one earlier outdoor show have depleted the fund...
Despite a crowd of 1000 at Saturday's student-organized Del Fuegos concert, the Student Production Association (SPA) may already have exhausted its funds in only its second show this year...
Soviet doctors stress the restorative virtues of spa vacations. At many resorts, visitors can immerse themselves in bubbling sulfur baths or inhale herbal steam. At Sochi, where the beach is covered with black pebbles instead of sand, white-uniformed nurses patrol seaside stretches with names like Medical Beach and Health Beach, enforcing a 55-minute limit on exposure to the sun's rays, even for the swarthiest guest. The preferred way for getting a quick tan is to stand facing the sun with arms held aloft. Because of a shortage of swimsuits and suntan oil, beaches are crowded with thousands...
...inner-city hospitals, cleaning hotel rooms, selling lottery tickets at newsstands, peddling flowers on city streets, even writing scholarly papers on such topics as "Coping Mechanisms of Immigrant Family Heads." They subsidize yuppie gentrification, performing the unseen, labor-intensive, minimum-wage tasks: folding the towels in the health spa, making the cold- pasta takeout salads, sewing the rhinestones on disco frocks...
...Farmington, N. Mex., a city of 35,626, MADD, SADD (for Students Against Drunk Driving), parents and local businessmen are trying to replace the "kegger," the traditional graduation-night beer party held in the hills outside town. A local bank donated use of a health spa, and TV and radio stations are contributing free airtime for SADD pleas asking students to sign lifetime "contracts" with parents promising to avoid drunk driving. In Houston, a cab company is offering free rides to inebriated promgoers, and tuxedos rented from Al's Formal Wear will come with a printed warning about drinking...