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Rather than being the social hub for jocks it once was, the Varsity Club has become a kind of umbrella organization for the various "Friends of" the different varsity teams, says Club President Walter Greeley '53, a letter winner in football, hockey, and baseball. Each of Harvard's 40 varsity teams has a "Friends of" organization. These alumni groups organize such functions as pre-game buffets and tailgate parties...
Harvard shut down Boston number one, a team comprised of the Hub's best amateurs, coming away with another 5-0 win in the semis...
...pastoral shepherd to Boston's two million Catholics, the 52-year-old Law has quickly pushed himself into the political spotlight, declaring during the presidential campaign that abortion is the preeminent issue for all Catholics and last month pledging expense-free health care to the Hub's pregnant women as a deterrent to abortion...
...Federal's success is the hub, its system of routing packages to one city and then sorting them out and transferring them to other flights for delivery to their final destination. Smith chose Memphis International Airport as his hub because it is centrally located in the U.S. and is socked in by fog only about ten hours a year. Beginning at around 11 p.m., some 60 planes arrive with a mountain of packages to be sorted and reloaded on the jets, which take off again between 2:50 a.m. and 4 a.m. Federal...
...turned the business into a delivery-truck version of Cannonball Run. The battle pushed down Federal's average price for an overnight shipment from $26.29 in 1981 to $19.36 this summer. Many of the rivals have copied Federal's formula. In 1981, Emery built a $60 million hub in Dayton and assembled a fleet of 67 planes. Airborne constructed its hub at an abandoned Strategic Air Command base in Wilmington, Ohio. The U.S. Postal Service has entered the field with its special $9.35 express mail service. In fiscal 1984 the USPS shipped some 41 million pieces of express...