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Alice in Concert transports the audience back to times when one believes everything one dreams, and dreams things that one hopes will come true. Moreover, the actors never succumb to the temptation of making this musical into a farce that would mock childhood tantasies. Rather they present the material with an earnestness that shows that they are enjoying themselves as much as the audience enjoys watching them...
...peak the club boasted a 12-man team who played the game each night. But, according to veteran member Larry Penn '83, the club began to succumb when people took a liking to football...
...someone die [April 11] should be viewed with trepidation. Consider an infant born with an inoperable heart defect as well as a serious, but curable stomach blockage that renders feeding impossible. The infant would die if it underwent heart surgery. Yet without a strong heart it would almost certainly succumb if surgery were attempted on the stomach defect. With court-ordered surgery, physicians are now being forced into the role of executioner...
...South Africa's recalcitrance on the Reagan Administration. Last year the U.S. began insisting that Namibia's independence be linked to the withdrawal of an estimated 30,000 Cuban troops from neighboring Marxist-led Angola. Only a year ago, many diplomats were optimistic that South Africa would succumb to pressure from the U.S., France, Britain, West Germany and Canada to allow U.N.-supervised elections that would lead to independence. Since then, South Africa has embraced linkage as an excuse to defer free elections. Little wonder: such a vote would probably be won by the South-West Africa People...
...forecasts a 25% rise in shipments during the year, to 80 million tons, that is still less than 75% of current capacity and little more than half the peak production of 150.8 million tons in 1973. More worrisome still, signs are emerging that the beleaguered and struggling industry could succumb to labor strife and perhaps even a crippling midsummer strike by the United Steelworkers of America, when the union's current three-year contract expires in August...