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...most local of the Square's bars is Whitney's Cafe (37 JFK St.), next to Urban Outfitters. The drinks are cheap and the beer standard fare as at any other bar in the country, no surprises here. The owner says he wants to attract student business but for some reason almost no one in the Yard has ever heard of it. But if you do go in to watch a ball game on the tube you will not feel unwelcome...
...report, on which Reuters had a 45-minute lead over all competitors, of the bombing attacks that killed almost 300 U.S. and French troops in Beirut last October. Yet Reuters does not hurry stories onto the wire before they are confirmed. New York Times Assistant Managing Editor Craig Whitney praises Reuters for reliability and restraint: "It is low key, cautious, thorough and not sensational." Says Jerusalem Post Editor Ari Rath: "With Reuters, you rarely have to ask, 'Do you have it from another source as well...
Meanwhile, last Friday at Yale's Payne Whitney Gymnasium, the Crimson clinched the East Coast Volleyball League's Division II league title by defeating the Bulldogs...
Weekend sweeps from both the Crimson and the Tigers will force a single playoff game at Yale's Payne Whitney Gymnasium Tuesday for the title and accompanying tourney berth...
...cause of all this uproar last week was the government's decision to award approximately 75 percent of Navy and Air Force fighter engine contracts to the General Electric company (GE). The Pratt and Whitney subsidiary of United Technologies (UT) had previously been the sole supplier of the F-15 and F-16 Air Force fighter engines, and the F-14 Navy engine. Surprise, surprise--Sen. Dodd's and Rep, Kennelly's home state of Connecticut also happens to be the home of Pratt and UT, while much of the new GE business will be done in Lynn, Mass...