Word: evan
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Seeking his seventh Senate term, Old Frontiersman Carl Hayden, 85, lay ill with a virus infection in Bethesda Naval Hospital. Back home, followers of Republican Evan Mecham, a Phoenix auto dealer, spread rumors that Hayden had suffered a stroke, that he was dying after a heart attack, that doctors at the hospital had been warned under threat of court-martial not to release news of his death until after Election Day. To convince voters that he was still alive and kicking, Hayden called a press conference-only his fourth in 50 years of public life-three days before election. Arizona...
Democrats seem much safer in Arizona, where ageless Carl Hayden, 85, dean of the Senate, faces Goldwaterite Evan Mechem. Arizona may like Barry and his politics, but Hayden is a state institution...
Arizona. Carl Hayden, oldest member of the Senate in both age (85) and tenure (since 1927), seems sure to win over State Senator Evan Mecham, a right-winger backed by the John Birch Society. Most doubts dissolved last month when two conservative Phoenix newspapers strongly endorsed Hayden...
...manager, admiring biographer and ghostwriter for Barry Goldwater, Phoenix Businessman Stephen Shadegg appeared to have impressive Republican credentials in Arizona. But they were not enough: last week, seeking the G.O.P. nomination for the Senate seat held by Democrat Carl Hayden, Shadegg took a lopsided licking. The winner: State Senator Evan Mecham...
...Young Savages (Hecht; U.A.) is taken from Evan (The Blackboard Jungle) Hunter's novel, A Matter of Conviction, which chronicled some savage, real-life skirmishes in New York's teenage gang warfare. The film is at its best when at its ugliest-picturing punks prowling their tenement-glutted, garbage-strewn "turf" (territory), or an Italian gang stabbing a blind Puerto Rican boy to death, or the grim subway beating of Assistant D.A. Burt Lancaster, or the switchblade threats on his pretty wife. These scenes were excitingly photographed on location in Manhattan's juvenile jungle, but the plot...