Word: foil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lineup will be: foil, Paul Forand, James Harrison, Hubert Hocutt, and Steven Schneider; sabre, John Craig, Dave Kenney, John Livingston, and Tony Provenzano; epee, Douglas Fitchen, Bob Pierskalla, Walter Rawls, and Bob Scrivner...
Dave Kenney and Bill Pierskalla of Harvard, and Phil Craig of B.U., holder of the National Collegiate Foil Championship, each were undefeated in three bouts. Crimson Captain Phil Forand lost a hotly contested 5-3 decision to Craig, but won his other two bouts easily...
Marion plans to use John Livingston, Dave Konney and Jim Standefer to fence sabre. Fencing epee will be Bill Plerskalla, Walter Rawis and Bob Serivner, while Paul Forand, Steve Schneider and Serge Sanger will fence foil...
...Crimson took the foil and sabre contests by identical 6-3 scores, but lost the epee, 2 to 4. Peter Boyce, the only Crimson fencer with previous experience, won all three of his foil matches, while Doug Runnels, David Silbert and Arthur Steinberg each took two out of their three sabre contests, and Phil Holcomb did well in the epee...
...everybody was happy. When the time came last week to lower France's tricolor, sullen French officials did it surreptitiously, to foil eager Indian photographers. Pondicherry had been widely known as a "goodtime town" and a smuggler's paradise (less than 1% of the millions of dollars worth of watches, silks and other luxury goods imported into Pondicherry went to its local citizens). Last week elderly, solemn Indian officials moved into choice hotel rooms previously used as brothels. One disgruntled hotelman pointed to a big stack of empty whisky bottles beside his back veranda and sighed: "That...