Word: evan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Evan Radcliffe of Princeton was named to the first team as was Mark Mullan, sports editor of The Dartmouth, Mullan, who moved up to the first squad after last year's second-team berth, wrote that Evan Radcliffe "Called Dartmouth fans raunchy.'" for which he gave Radcliffe an A plus, an opinion with which we concur...
...more qualified white applicants. Some alumni representatives recruiting for Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Md., New York City, Detroit, Chicago, New Jersey, Delaware and Indiana--areas with large black populations where applications have decreased this year--are engaged in "an active effort to discourage minority students from applying here." David L. Evans, associate dean of Harvard admissions, said last week. And the alumni recruiters from Detroit and Delaware contacted after Evan's criticized them said that in fact some members of their staffs believe in the reverse discrimination myth, that less well prepared blacks are being admitted to Harvard while better qualified...
...Mitla Pass, cabled Schecter, is no narrow cowboy-and-Indian ambush site. It stretches for 15 miles between granite outcroppings, the quickest route into the Sinai from the canal. With the low ground beneath him and the demilitarized zone nine miles in front of him, General Jacob ("Jacke") Evan, 40, made his pitch, stressing the importance of controlling the high ground and maintaining an effective "electronic alert." Evan, deputy commander of Israel's southern front and an armored expert who fought at Mitla Pass in '67, declined to explain what he meant by the term, but Israeli radar...
...Evan swung his pointer across a map board, from the Mitla through the desert to the Giddi Pass 30 miles north. "If we stay in this area," he said, "we can conduct a good defensive operation without putting the whole army in." By controlling the passes, he said, the Israelis have a 7-to-l manpower advantage over the Egyptians. The Mitla Pass outpost seemed lightly manned. Only a few squads of soldiers were camped amidst the crushed granite and sand bars. "Why don't we see any tanks or artillery?" the general was asked. He smiled. "This...
...CONNOISSEUR by Evan S. Council Jr. A businessman descends into the joys of collecting pre-Columbian art and gradually loses himself to his possessions...