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...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...
...Richardson, wrestling at 134, Tim Corcoran at 158 and Bruce Johnson, weighing in at 167, all pinned their hapless MIT opponents. Richardson did the quickest work, dropping Jody Silver at 0:43, while Corcoran pinned John Thoere at 3:19 and Johnson flattened Peter Haag...
ENDS: Randy White, Maryland, 6 ft. 4 in., 248 lbs. The quickest defensive lineman in college. Blessed with tremendous upper-body strength, White simply overpowers blockers. He sacked opposing quarterbacks twelve times this year...
...called When the Legends Die), soon knew she meant it. Several workdays began with Kate royally telling him how she and Duke thought a scene should be shot. Moaned Millar: "A hell of a way to start the day." Kate countered: "A sharp knife cuts the quickest and hurts the least." The open secret on the set was that Duke and Kate pretty well directed themselves. More than once, Wayne stormed at Millar for overshooting scenes. "Goddammit," Duke boomed, "we can say these lines just so many times before they stop making sense." When the flustered director tried to proceed...
...Cambridge City Council, angry that the NASA jobs had never materialized while potentially revenue-producing land remained undeveloped, ordered the Cambridge Redevelopment Authority (CRA) to come up with a development plan that would provide the best and quickest returns to the city...