Word: foil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most controversial performance is Eugene Gervasi's Fool. Gervasi's every moment was tremendously stylized, to the point where he seemed to have rehearsed in someone else's production. But he spoke better than most, and his mournful grace made a good foil for Lear's frenzy. Only in the scene on the heath did his method fail...
...satellites, which he prefers to call a sub-satellite, is so light that it can be carried almost as an afterthought by any orbit-bound rocket. It is a balloon of plastic film .00025 in. thick, bonded to aluminum foil .0005 in. thick and packed in a doughnut-shaped container. To inflate the balloon, O'Sullivan provides a capsule of nitrogen gas at 2,000 Ibs. pressure per square inch. The whole apparatus weighs only...
...individual medley as well. ¶ Although their only national champion, Epee Expert James Margolis, was sidelined with a pulled tendon, Columbia University swordsmen lunged across the ballroom of The Bronx's Concourse Plaza Hotel with such swashbuckling skill that they piled up 71 points in foil, épée and saber bouts, and won the three-weapon intercollegiate title. Second: N.Y.U. with 66. ¶ The Fish and Wildlife Service reported an alltime record sale of 19,276,767 fishing licenses and 14,918,416 hunting licenses in fiscal 1957. California, which led the U.S. in fishermen, reported...
Bruce Parker and Dave Schwartz, who have gained much experience this season, will also fence epee for Harvard. Dick Johnson, a regular foil fencer, will be in reserve...
Starting in foil for Harvard will be Peter Boyce, Mike Klapper, and Bill Trebilcock. They will face a serious double threat in John Norton and Peter Pohly of Yale, both left-handers and both excellent foilmen. Norton, ranked fourth in NCAA standings last year, and Pohly is a foilman turned sabreman turned foilman...