Word: evan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...says; to keep the kids from fleeing, they say. As he carefully shows how a scientific theory can affect man's own view of himself, and requires students to explain such notions as velocity and inertia in their own words, the relevance hits them. The course, recalls Amherst Graduate Evan Snyder, "was absolute hell?but one of the most valuable intellectual experiences I've been through." One student slipped a note under Arons' door, reading "I can't help wondering if physics is really as interesting as you make it seem...
...most exciting effort so far has been the Educational Audit proposal, which set up a regular HPC subcommittee to review, and issue reports on, the curriculam and rules of each department every four years. Under Evan Davis, the subcommittee has already enlisted the services of a number of capable students and the cooperation of many of the department chairman and senior tutors. With this proposal, the HPC has found an excellent way of reaching to the heart of Harvard's educational system. If the momentum already built up continues, this subcommittee could have a lasting effect on course offerings...
Revlon's aggressive chairman, Charles Revson, 58, is in a diversifying mood. In the past three years, he has bought six companies in everything from ladies' sportswear (Evan-Picone) to plastic packaging (Amerline), thereby added more than $25 million a year to RevIon's sales. The $67.5 million that RevIon will pay for U.S. Vitamin (1964 sales: $21 million) may seem high, but Charlie Revson considers the price cheap enough in an age obsessed by health and about to be presented with medicare. In the trade, there is already speculation about whether he plans to rewrite...
...Affair); John D. MacDonald, the O'Hara of the whodunit; Australia's Arthur W. Upfield, whose detective hero, Napoleon Bonaparte, is half aborigine; Donald Hamilton, whose Matt Helm is a sort of Yankee 007; and Ed McBain, a master of suspenseful prose, who in real life is Evan Hunter, author of The Blackboard Jungle...
...total of 19 students rose to address the meetings, and no common theme emerged. SDS plenipotentiary Peter Orris '67 wondered if anyone could define the "power structure" at Harvard. Evan Davis '66, who is on the Harvard Undergraduate Council during the winter, volunteered to do so, and described the roles of the University's various governing bodies...