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Though the enthusiasts that braved the cold windy weather to watch the game were not rewarded with finesse or a goal-scoring duel, they saw a strong and conditioned Harvard team run all over a weak, often hapless, MIT, giving hints of the jig-saw puzzle that coach George Ford has been quietly piecing together in the last few weeks...
Michael Levin's Tybalt lacks sufficient fire until he gets to the duel with Romeo, which is fast, furious and fanatical. A cheer for Patrick Crean, who has coached every trace of timidity and amateurism out of all the fencers...
...gives full rein to his wellknown comedic talents, whether goosing Maria, hiccuping or extracting hidden booze from unexpected places. He also proves himself, in his fight with Sebastian, to be a really first-rate fencer--which seems all the more impressive in the wake of the sidesplittingly inept duel between Viola and Sir Andrew, both of whose foils fly into the air at the opening engagement en quarte, and, later on, wind up in a single hand. Farcical fencing is no easy trick to pull off, and Patrick Crean deserves great credit for his meticulous staging of all the swordplay...
...beginning to look like another long, hot summer in the troubled relations between China and Russia. For the past few months the two nations have been engaged in a vituperative duel over the Chinese capture of a Soviet helicopter that strayed across the border into Sinkiang last March. The Soviets claim that the helicopter, with its three-man crew, was on a medical rescue mission when it lost its bearings over the Altai Mountains. The Chinese insist that the chopper "carried arms and reconnaissance equipment" and was involved in "espionage activities." Since their capture, the luckless Soviet crewmen have been...
...sole candidate of the center and right, Giscard would be favored to top Mitterrand. The current campaign, however, has had several surprises. Thus, no one rules out the long-odds possibility that Mitterrand may just get a majority on May 5, winning the presidency and making the Giscard-Chaban duel on the right an empty exercise...