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...Crimson fell behind the Tigers early, trailing 6-3 after the first round of bouts, and only once looked capable of catching Princeton. When the score went to 7-3, sabre fencer Richard Gillette edged Princeton co-captain Steve Adler, 5-4, shook his fist and marched back to his teammates with a look of intense determination...

Author: By Stephen A. Herzenberg, | Title: Crimson Fencers Bloodied by Tigers, 18-9 | 2/6/1978 | See Source »

...versions, its adherents insist, is Stratomatic Baseball. To make the game more realistic, the strengths and weaknesses of real baseballers were fed into a computer by the designers. These in turn affect the strengths and weaknesses of Stratomatic players; one scholar at Atlanta's Emory University punched his fist through two windows last year after losing at Stratomatic. New York teenager Chris Boeth can play a solitaire game in about 13 minutes, he reports. That is fast; still... "Let's see, there's 162 games in a regular season. And, of course, 26 teams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Games People Play: 1977 | 12/26/1977 | See Source »

...Minnesota surgeon, underwent a similar operation himself while researching his 1975 book Healing and reported that the "psychic" incisions were actually made with bits of mica concealed under a fingernail. The excised "tumor" appeared to Nolen to be chicken tissue and had been concealed in the surgeon's fist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Attacking the New Nonsense | 12/12/1977 | See Source »

...show Washington that he is as gifted with jazz as he is with Tchaikovsky. Rostropovich caught the spirit easily, bending his body into the music, shafting his cues with a vigorous baton, sculpting the shapes of sound with his left hand, now kneading, now pleading, now punching his fist to bring home a thunderous cluster of dissonance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Magnificent Maestro | 10/24/1977 | See Source »

...Thracian warrior and his horse were both dead, the aristocrat's head lolling in the ditch, golden breastplate crumpled where the spear had struck, fist clutched tardily, forever, at the hilt of a jewelled dagger...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Centaurs' Treasure | 10/12/1977 | See Source »

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