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...CHINESE LAUNDRY by Josef von Sternberg. 348 pages. Macm/'//arr...
...resolution to deny Welch the club's sponsorship was offered by Eric Von Salzen '65, a former president of the HYRC, because "we must try and away the undecided group to the Republican Party and inviting such speakers as Welch will not facilitate this task...
McNicol said he had an appointment with Dean Watson next Monday to discuss Welch's proposed visit. After hearing Von Salzen's speech, however, McNicol said he was convinced that "this is not the proper time to ask him to speak...
...McNicol, Von Salzen, and seven of the ten other executive committee members voted for the resolution, which would be effective until October...
Soon the mother abbess (Peggy Wood) finds a solution. She sends the moonbeam off to shine as governess for Captain von Trapp (Christopher Plummer, slickly miscast), a widower who shares his palatial Schloss with seven troublesome but more or less irresistible children. Appalled by the captain's ironfisted discipline, Maria coddles the youngsters. One stormy eve she packs them all into bed with her, quieting their fears with some doughty Hammerstein stanzas. Eventually she teaches them to sing, captivates their father and marries him. Together they lead their septet across the border to Switzerland, with storm troopers baying...