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...addition to the 100 Harvard delegates, the conference drew more than 300 students from across the country. It was the largest such group hosted overnight at the University on a weekend without a home football game, said Archie C. Epps III, dean of students...
...China under the terms of the 99-year lease that imperial Britain wrested from the tottering Qing Dynasty in 1898. Although earlier treaties gave Britain the remaining 34 sq. mi. in perpetuity, that area depends on the New Territories for food and water and cannot survive alone. Literally overnight, Kai Tak international airport, half of Hong Kong's new subway system, and most of the colony's housing would no longer exist under the shadow of the Union Jack, but rather under the five-star flag of the People's Republic...
...Coast-based daily newspapers, Daily Variety and the Hollywood Reporter. Vaunting oneself in "the trades"* is second nature throughout Hollywood. Says one major studio executive: "Ours is a business of hype." Scarcely a day goes by without an ad, a story or a skillfully planted gossip item about an overnight success, an out-of-town comeback, an agent's abject gratitude that some hot client continues to employ him. Says cable talk-show host Colin Dangaard: "A publicist in this town would rather have a story about a client in the Hollywood Reporter than in the Wall Street Journal...
...have responded with a typically still upper lip. If Her Majesty's forces could travel more than 8,000 miles to fight in the cold of an Antarctic winter, the citizenry felt it could withstand a four-hour highway trip home in a moving parking lot, or bunking down overnight in the office with a sleeping...
borrowing costs are falling steadily. In the past four weeks the prime has declined to 13.5%. The federal-funds rate, which is the interest that banks pay for borrowed money overnight, has plunged from 14.58% at the end of June to 9%. The rates that most consumers pay have not fallen nearly...