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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sophomore Ethan Cruvant, who led the Harvard scoring attack with five goals in the two games, said yesterday he was especially happy about the surprising victory over Yale...

Author: By Marc E. Raven, | Title: Waterballers Splash Past Yale But Run Aground Against MIT | 10/26/1977 | See Source »

Sally brings with her one possession, one consolation, one lifeline to the Brave New World she rather wishes she had been born into-her television set. James is a puritan: a beekeeper, a man who splits elm at 20° below zero, a myth maker whose hero is Ethan Allen, not the Fonz. James hates Snoopy, Coca-Cola, California, astronauts (they are there to "undo him") and, above all, television. One night James takes out his 12-gauge shotgun and blasts away at Sally's picture tube as if it were the devil's eye; when she objects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Making Ends Meet | 12/20/1976 | See Source »

...Colonel Ethan Allen and his Green Mountain Boys attack Fort Ticonderoga and seize gateway to Lake Champlain and water route to Canada. May 10. Second Continental Congress meets in Philadelphia. May 18. Congress urges colonies to put their militia in state of preparedness. June 15. Congress appoints George Washington commander of Continental troops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Chronology of Independence | 7/4/1976 | See Source »

...enemy gave out I was crazy and wholly unmanned, but my vitals held sound." It seems that Ethan Allen, 38, the argumentative hero of Fort Ticonderoga, is giving almost as much trouble to the British as he did when he was commander of the Green Mountain Boys. Seized last year after launching a premature and ill-considered attack on Montreal, Allen was shipped to a castle near Falmouth, England. He was not hanged, apparently because the British feared reprisals. He is now on a British frigate sailing along the American coast ?a possible exchange for some captured English officer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 4, 1976 | 7/4/1976 | See Source »

...basketball player now does have a strong surge of forward motion-at least among liberal Democrats. Senator Birch Bayh's followers in New York State, scene of Udall's next big primary on April 6, have already begun to coalesce around Udall's campaign. Says Ethan Geto, one of Bayh's New York leaders: "Based on some early soundings, the majority sentiment [among Bayh's delegate slates] so far is clearly for Mo Udall." Other liberals are planning to abandon Sargent Shriver and Senator Frank Church -due to enter the presidential race next week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Shooting from Left Center | 3/15/1976 | See Source »

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