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When they first hit the courts six years ago. oversized tennis racquets immediately drew the scorn and skepticism of any self respecting tennis player. But the innovation has come to corner the racquet industry as it siphons off 40 per cent of the total market sales. Promising and apparently serving up unreal results, its geriatric stigma has now disappeared...

Author: By Steven M. Arkow, | Title: Making Headway: A Prince Turns King | 12/4/1981 | See Source »

...School rents Hemenway from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and currently pays 45 per cent of the building's maintenance, Upton said, adding, "We're not trying to exclude anyone, but our own people have got to come first...

Author: By John F. Baughman, | Title: Law Students Dominate Courts With Hemenway B-Ball League | 12/3/1981 | See Source »

...Britz now has 11 goals in four games, plus 11 assists. Fusco leads the team with nine points...A pleasant surprise this year has been the Crimson's power-play potency. The icemen have clicked for power-play goals ten times in 31 chances for an amazing 32 per cent. B.U. is four for 18, 22 per cent...In other ECAC action last night, RPI upset Providence, 7-6, Colgate held on to whip Cornell, 6-4, and New Hampshire topped Maine...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Terriers Swallow Icemen, 5-2, at Walter Brown | 12/3/1981 | See Source »

...total business, they are by far the majority in the wee hours--say 3:30 to 6 a.m., when, as one counter employee puts it, the store gets "weird, but boring." Harvard's influence on the franchise is more noticeable during the summer, when business drops 30 per cent. The peaks and lows produced by reading period, finals, and the stretches in between when students get locked into a pattern of nightly munchie-hunting also affect sales...

Author: By Amy E. Schwartz, | Title: Playing On People's Paranoia | 12/2/1981 | See Source »

...student explains, just a Snickers bar and some penny candy. The average sale is, in fact, about $1.50, Higgins says, but that takes into account the 340 sales a day of a single can of soda, the people who come just for a break and buy a single three-cent mint, and, conversely, the ones who are locked into a pattern of four or five dollars worth a night...

Author: By Amy E. Schwartz, | Title: Playing On People's Paranoia | 12/2/1981 | See Source »

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