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When a Honolulu grand jury indicted Three-Term Mayor Frank Fasi for bribery last March, Special Prosecutor Grant Cooper thought he had an airtight case. The flamboyant Fasi, 57, a former junk dealer given to gestures like throwing a birthday party for himself at Aloha Stadium and inviting 20,000 guests, was charged with entering into a "corrupt understanding" with Local Developer Hal Hansen. Granted immunity from prosecution, Hansen talked a lot. He alleged that Fasi was to have received $500,000 disguised as campaign contributions from Hansen in exchange for the contract to build a $50 million city-sponsored...
First there was Athos, Aramis and Porthos and now there is Cooper, Lowry and Sze. History's second great trio of duelers engineered the Harvard women's fencing teams surprisingly easy 13-3 victory over MIT Saturday, winning 12 bouts and losing none...
Captain Nancy Cooper came the closest to having her record blemished. In her fourth and final bout of the afternoon, she quickly went down 4-1 against MIT's Marion Stein. She came back to 4-2 by parrying a Stein attack then counter-attacking into the MIT fencers midsection. Cooper tied the bout at 4-4 with two touches below Stein's attempted parries in two seconds. She clinched the victory by beating Stein's blade downward and lunging forward to touch the unprotected stomach...
...Cooper attributed the victory to intelligent fencing. By figuring out early what MIT expected them to do, the Crimson were able to fence unpredictably and outfox their foes...
...final 72-41 score was a near-perfect reversal of last year's 71-42 tally. Navy, who had shaved down for last year's contest, arrived hairy-legged to Saturday's meet, much to the disappointment of the revenge-crazed Crimson. Malcolm Cooper, whose times reveal just how psyched he was, lamented afterwards, "I'm really disappointed they didn't shave, because we would have burned 'em anyway...