Word: hsa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...elusive slick-haired, fast talking salesman a table-to-table tour of the Union yesterday peddling HSA Samplers without the knowledge of Dean Watson, the Secretary of the Union, or the HSA...
...Dean's office seems to have granted HSA monopoly rights at Harvard, which may or may not be justified. However, as long as HSA has such a monopoly. I believe it should make public such information as the cost of the charter planes. If the different between the cost and the fares charged to students is reasonable. HSA has nothing to hide. (Note: HSA has no "profits." It maintains it is a non-profit organization.) Therefore I called the manager of the Charter Flight Agency, Lawrence Robertson, who told me that he was unable to divulge the cost of chartering...
Therefore all I can do is make a guess. I know for a fact that last year a group chartered a plane from NYC to LA for a cost of $155 per seat round trip, compared with $205 for HSA this Christmas. The same group chartered a plane from NYC to Copenhagen for $272 (jet) and $216 (propeller), and to Madrid for $251 (jet). These are last year's prices and it will be a month before I can obtain this year's figures from that organization. My guess is that HSA is charging between five and ten per cent...
Dustin M. Burke '52, General Manager of HSA, said, "It seems pretty clear that our organization has had nothing to do with this...
Burke suggested that the salesman night have gotten hold of the booklets, which contain discount coupons redeemable at many Cambridge-area establishments, through one of the companies that supply the Samplers to the HSA. He could not name the companies...