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However, Harvard had not been shut out by a non-league opponent since 1977, when Massachusetts bested the Crimson, 17-0. Harvard's 41-point margin of loss Saturday was its largest since the 1964 season, when Dartmouth shellacked Harvard...
Massachusetts is one of only five states that complements federally financed housing with its own housing program and, with 50,000 subsidized apartments, is operating the largest state-assisted program in the nation, said John Sidor, executive director of the Council of State Community Affairs Agencies...
...rapid maneuvers, Texas Air has emerged as the high flyer in the country's fierce merger wars. On Oct. 1 Northwest Airlines formally merges its flight schedule with Republic's, creating what will be the fifth largest U.S. airline, with 9.4% of the market. Trans World Airlines, which gained DOT % approval early this month for its $250 million purchase of Ozark Air, will soon be the sixth-place carrier (8.1%). Two weeks ago Delta Air Lines announced a bid to take over the fourth-place spot (11.9%) in the passenger race with an $860 million play for Western. Warns...
...merely victims of oppression. That long line includes Poles, Hungarians, Armenians, White Russians and Spanish republicans. In the late 1970s Frenchmen of every political persuasion welcomed the Vietnamese boat people, and today the Indochinese refugee community, with more than 100,000 members, is one of the city's largest. Inevitably, the anxiety level of Paris, and its people, rises sharply in a time of violence. But French Historian Pierre Chaunu warns against linking the current outrages with the country's traditional tolerance of outsiders. Says he: "The terrorists are not emigres or political exiles. They are tourists who come...
...additional measures, like restrictions on new investment in companies that do not follow principles of racial equality. In its determination not to upset the Pretoria government unduly, the Administration even let it be known that it disagreed with a decision by the Coca-Cola Co., once one of the largest American employers in South Africa, to sell its remaining holdings in that country as an expression of the company's opposition to apartheid...