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...Elis' brutal season has drastically slowed ticket sales, with thousands still available just days before. The Game Harvard will send its largest-ever contingent to New Haven--nearly 18,000--because Yale had extra tickets to allocate. This ebb, some suggest, puts the schools in the awkward situation of having to drum up last-minute interest at the same time that the event's guiding philosophy discourages what Ryan calls "a lot of hulabaloo...
Ingram says his club is planning one of the largest celebrations, expecting nearly 200 Yale-alums and 160 Harvard grads. But while Ingram says spirit and the temperature will be high, he adds that interest may wane if one side seems to be losing badly...
...results emerge when examining the relative contributions to American leadership. In the 97th Congress, 44 senators and representatives have studied in Cambridge, 23 in New Haven. Six American Presidents did time at Harvard, two at Yale (although both had special distinctions--William Howard Taft, a College graduate, was the largest President, Gerald R. Ford of the Law School, was the only unelected...
...possible takeover by China when Britain's lease on most of Hong Kong expires in 1997 has shaken the colony. Hong Kong real estate prices have plunged by as much as two-thirds during the past 18 months. The Carrian group, one of Hong Kong's largest property developers, has collapsed, and the government has assumed control of the Hang Lung Bank, which was faltering partly because of bad real estate loans...
...line has been hit harder than Greyhound, the nation's largest, which operates 3,800 buses and carried 57 million passengers last year. In an effort to cut costs, Greyhound last month asked the Amalgamated Transit Union to roll back wages and benefits to levels of two years ago, a cut that Greyhound said averaged about 17%. The union, which represents 12,500 workers, including 7,000 drivers, contended that the pay reductions really totaled between 20% and 25%, and turned down the proposal on the very same day. When the old contract expired last week, the union went...