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...foil and sabre, Harvard's showing was bleary-eyed from the start. Crimson coach Edo Marion, forced to use epee man Chris Jennings in sabre because of Gordon Rutledge's tonsillectomy, did not get much from Jennings, or for that matter, from any of the regular sabre men. Jennings dropped three straight to NYU, and captain Terry Valenzuela, who is usually a sabre stalwart, won but one of three matches...
...foil, the Crimson couldn't shake off the slumbers of inactivity and lost all but two bouts. Phillipe Bennett took a shaky 5-4 decision but Marion said that the bout "could have gone either way--it was nothing to be proud...
Anthropologist Elliot Liebow, a National Institute of Mental Health administrator and one of the report's authors, attacks the problem with a sharp semantic foil. Since raising children and maintaining a home is work, he argues, the Government should define it as such. Thus all mothers would meet any statutory requirements for work just by continuing to do what they are presently doing-and of course they would get paid...
...foil men did much, much better than I had expected," Marion said after the match. "And thank God that they...
...foil team was backed up by a solid performance by the sabre men, who, had they not lost three straight 5-4 decisions in the second round, would have had an equally impressive record. As it was, the sabre squad took two out of three bouts in the first round, and bounced back from the second round debacle to sweep three straight in round three to give Harvard the team victory. The sabre squad won five out of nine bouts in the afternoon...