Word: towns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bulldogs get serious when the Crimson is in town. Yale Professor of Economics William V. Nordhaus, Yale '63, says that The Game embodies "athletic rivalry between the two leading universities of the world, one leading in both intellectual and athletic arenas: Yale...
Apparently, though, this was an Eli-inspired exaggeration. In fact, Haughton merely tied a papier mache bulldog to his car and dragged it around town. More recently, however, Handsome Dan has been left in peace, as pranksters have taken a healthier direction...
...pranks have not been limited to desecrating the opposite school's holy symbols. In 1962, the Harvard Band left Handsome Dan alone and marched through the streets of New Haven at 3:00 a.m. waking up students and town residents. In doing so, the band broke a city regulation and all its members ended up in jail...
...first citizens of cities ranging from Boise, Idaho and Austin, Texas to New Bedford, Mass. and Sunnyvale, Cal. checked into town yesterday for a five-day conference for newly-elected mayors at the Kennedy School...
Whatever else might be said (and is said) about New Haven, the town offers some of the best restaurants in New England, and the best pizza in America...