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Friday night in Baltimore isn't much to celebrate over, especially if you've had a drawn-out and disappointing day fencing in the NCAA Championships. So last night, the Harvard fencers taking part in the national competition decided to watch a little television to while away the boredom...
...foil squad, for the major part of the season a big disappointment to Marion, could finally live up to pre-season press-clippings. Phillippe Bennett should find the drawn-out IFA competition more to his liking than the short three-bout matches that he has had often in similarly run meets. And Howie Weiss, who bolstered the Harvard foil contingent all season, is not likely to falter measurably either...
Kissinger argues fairly persuasively that at least part of the blame for the drawn-out negotiations must be laid to the style and temperament of the U.S.'s adversaries. As a Johnson Administration adviser in the 1960s, Kissinger was a keen student of the Vietnamese negotiating style. In his remarkably prescient Foreign Affairs article, Kissinger noted "the peculiar negotiating style of Hanoi: the careful planning, the subtle, indirect methods, the preference for opaque communications which keep open as many options as possible." North Vietnamese diplomacy, he observed, operated in somewhat baffling "cycles of reconnaissance and withdrawal." Even...
Donald G. Anderson, professor of Applied Mathematics, said that the committee "may do something over the summer" but that the conflicting summer schedules of its five members will prevent a coordinated effort. "It will be a long, drawn-out process," he said...
...pages. Houghton Mifflin. $10. "I saw a black shape hunched up on the ground. I hunched down myself . . . in the thick undergrowth. Then I heard a soft hoo to my right. I looked up and saw a large male directly overhead. All at once he uttered a long drawn-out wraaaai . . . one of the most savage sounds of the African forest ... I forced myself to appear uninterested and busy, eating some roots from the ground. The end of the branch above me hit my head. With a stamping and slapping of the ground a black shape charged through the undergrowth...