Word: attacking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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More than anything else, anxiety dominated the Harvard attack in the first period, as the Crimson trailed 3-0 with only 8:30 gone in the contest...
Things cooled off for a while, until Dartmouth parlayed a holding penalty on Jack Hughes into the 3-0 margin. With 25 seconds to go in the man-up situation, Dartmouth mounted one last attack. Lau stopped Dennis Murphy's attempt from the left face-off circle, but center Mark Bedard was there to nail home the rebound...
Crimson fencer Bernadette Drankowski lunged forward but the point of her foil blade came up short of her opponent's neck. Rather than clearing Drankowski's blade to the side and responding with a counter-attack, Rhode Island College fencer Joleen Morinho obligingly left the point inches from her vest so that Drankowski, after a momentary pause, could push the foil forward for the touch...
DIED. Gene Tunney, 81, former world heavyweight boxing champion who twice defeated Jack Dempsey before retiring undefeated in 1928; of a heart attack; in Greenwich, Conn, (see SPORT...
DIED. Janet Planner, 86, writer and correspondent whose "Letter from Paris," by-lined "Genet," appeared regularly in The New Yorker for almost 50 years; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Born in Indianapolis, Planner worked briefly as a newspaper film critic and traveled throughout Europe before settling in Paris in 1922. Three years later, New Yorker Editor Harold Ross hired the American expatriate, and for the next five decades she filed erudite portraits of French society. A graceful, exacting stylist, Planner also wrote profiles on figures as diverse as Adolf Hitler and Queen Mary of England...