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...first semester at Currier, the students had made progress in livening their collective spirit. To that end, they threw the first annual Yale party for The Game. Viola and Khazei say it took more than 125 students to run the initial bush, now well known as one of the largest weekend Game activities. The organizers wanted to spend $2000 for the party, but made it a success with considerably less...
...Britz took a feed from junior Tony Visone, and dished it off to Mark Fusco. Fusco then sent a blast from 60 feet out that bounced off Tortorella's pads and into the net. It was the only goal the Crimson would need, and brought the 3800 fans, the largest crowd of the season, to their feet...
...memory was particularly strong at the Condé Nast company; it is the nation's sixth largest magazine group (1982 advertising revenues: $180 million), and has been a leader in an industry-wide trend toward seeking the affluent, educated readers whom advertisers covet. Condé Nast is noted primarily for magazines about fashion and fitness (Vogue, Gentlemen's Quarterly, Self), but company executives believed that a cultural magazine could have even greater appeal "upscale" and invested as much as $15 million to develop the idea. Next week 732,000 copies of the first Vanity Fair in 47 years...
...Guide, the nation's largest weekly (circ. 17.5 million), has long been known as something of a cheerleader for the industry it covers. For the past few years, however, TV Guide's editors have been trying to introduce a brand of muckraking to their pages. Last May the magazine exposed what CBS News later acknowledged were journalistic violations in a network documentary, aired in January 1982, that assailed the Viet Nam War conduct of General William Westmoreland. Last week, however, TV Guide found itself fending off charges of inaccuracy and unfairness, made by CBS, among others, against...
Package tours, as always, are the best buys. American Express has been offering seven-night stays in economy-class hotels in Acapulco or Cancún for $99, not including airfare. Mexico Travel Advisers (M.T.A.), the largest U.S. wholesaler of package tours to Mexico, can fly the vacationer from Los Angeles or San Diego to Mazatlan and back, put him up at a good hotel for a week and include sightseeing and airport transportation for $236. Los Angeles residents can get away even more cheaply by driving to Tijuana (about 2½ hours) and flying on to their holiday destinations...