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...past contest Coach Dave Fish had tried to make the inevitable victory over the Engineers more lively by not bringing his top three seeds of the match. But MIT Coach Ed Crocker pleaded for a chance for his squad to play some of the best squash player in the nation. "Their coach wanted to play the best." Fish said. I don't like doing this. I like to see some competitive squash matches. But they were pretty good about...

Author: By Caren D. Williams, | Title: Racquetmen Muneh Engineers: Take Only an Hour to Win, 9-0 | 2/8/1983 | See Source »

...wonder: such a vote would probably be won by the South-West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO), the Marxist-dominated guerrilla movement that is leading an armed independence struggle in the territory. At a stormy meeting two weeks ago in the capital of another black neighbor, Zimbabwe, Chester Crocker, the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, was berated by Zimbabwe's Prime Minister, Robert Mugabe, who called the linkage idea "blackmail." Said Mugabe: "The U.S.'s insistence on this linkage has given solace to the South African regime." The Zimbabwean leader declared that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Namibia: Unhappy Holiday | 1/31/1983 | See Source »

Some campus visits are little more than courtesy calls by companies that want to keep their names before the graduating students. Concedes David Lewis, who supervises college hiring for San Francisco-based Crocker National Bank: "There is a long-term public relations value even with students you don't hire." Lewis notes that some of his colleagues are skeptical about the value of an M.B.A. "It's a fairly common belief among some people at Crocker that M.B.A.s are overrated," says he. "Some still see the importance of hiring M.B.A.s, but others are asking whether it is really...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hard Lesson | 1/31/1983 | See Source »

...hand, it is no trick to order merchandise over the phone, since this requires the presentation of neither an actual card nor a valid signature. One band of California criminals stole $250,000 in a carbon-paper caper last year, according to an official of California's Crocker National Bank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Carbon-Paper Crime Wave | 12/13/1982 | See Source »

...Froderick Greeley Crocker Award, given to the team's most valuable player, as voted by his teammates--senior quarterback Don Allard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scoreboard | 11/23/1982 | See Source »

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