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...Such upward mobility comes high...
TORY FROHTINGHAM, choreographed and danced "Improvisation" to Eric Satie's music "Trois Gymnopedies." This mood dance-piece uses the music's constant pitch by reiterating upward motions of the arms and legs. Such interpretive repetition works well, the dance becomes three movements of gymnastics for the feet. Yet as a whole does not take us beyond the first movement...
...cousin of Queen Elizabeth II, lent her aristocratic presence to a dinner dance at Manhattan's Americana Hotel, and the infusion was further strengthened by the presence of Film Star Cory Grant. The result was a happy stamping ground for some 1,200 of New York's upward mobility set and a gratifying take for Variety Clubs International, which aids handicapped and needy children...
Michael Novak's Slovak grandparents, oppressed by the Austro-Hungarian empire, emigrated to the United States for the classic reasons. One grandfather became a Pennsylvania farmer. One grandmother, widowed, hired out as housekeeper and laundress. Novak's parents mobiled upward, from Johnstown's Slovak ghetto to "the WASP suburb on the hill." Then Michael went the rest of the way. He is a sober-profiled Catholic professor of philosophy and religion, currently at the State University of New York. But with a book in one hand (perhaps even his own A Theology for Radical Politics...
Michigan's INS Deputy Director Armand Salturelli says the number of citizen complaints increased as the unemployment rate in the state spiraled upward. The March unemployment rate in Detroit went to 8.8%, and reached 9% statewide-both significantly above the 5.9% national unemployment figure. Foreign students who need to work to support themselves must first get special work permits, but even with such a permit they cannot work more than 20 hours a week on an off-campus job (except during summer vacations). To retain their student visas they are also required to carry a full load of semester...