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When I got to New Haven, I knew I had to sell one of my two tickets. I hung outside the Yale Bowl, huddled in my army jacket, looking like a convict. At everyone who passed by I intoned, "Psst. Need a ticket...
...PSST. PSST. HELLO? You officially cut ties to the nine all-male final clubs on campus, more than one year ago. It has been revealed recently, however, that Harvard Real Estate has continued to rent space in Holyoke Center for use by the final clubs--space that is formally available only to Harvard affiliates. Such a practice is not so much blatant hypocrisy as it is a comment on how wide the gap between concerns of the administration and those of students can become. For many students the question of Harvard's ties to final clubs was an important issue...
...Psst! Want to be skipper of your own ship? Up and down all three U.S. coastlines, plenty are available, as boatmakers are buffeted by one of the worst sailboat gluts in memory. No accurate estimate of the number of vessels for sale is available, but price cuts of 25% to 30%, particularly for secondhand sailboats in the $100,000-and-under range, have suddenly become common. Says Bill Stewart, owner of a boat brokerage in Key Biscayne, Fla.: "The bottom has just fallen out of sales...
...Psst! They passed with honors. Trivial Pursuit has already sold more than 11 million copies in its Genus, Sports, Silver Screen and new Baby Boomer editions, bringing in $400 million for Selchow & Righter, which is now manufacturing a million games a week to meet the demand. This fall stores will be inundated with Trivial Pursuit calendars, cartoon books and pencil caddies. ABC-TV is planning to air a Trivial Pursuit special. And in January the Queen Elizabeth II sets sail on an eight-day Trivial Pursuit cruise, with Abbott and the Haneys aboard...
...Psst-anybody wanna buy a destroyer...