Word: foiled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Paul Zygas, Lawrence Butler, and John Kolb are scheduled to go for Harvard in the sabre, with Captain Nick Spitzer, Kent Brittain, and Steve Chalmers in the epee. Lloyd Ramsey, Dan Kirsch, and Charles Dooley in the foil fill out the lineup...
...from California's Vandenberg Air Force Base, Echo II rocketed into a polar orbit 642 to 816 miles above the earth. As it sped toward Madagascar about an hour after launch, the canister popped open, releasing the sturdy skin of the balloon, composed of two layers of aluminum foil laminated to a sheet of plastic. The warm rays of the sun began to vaporize chemicals inside the satellite, expanding it to its full 135-ft. diameter...
...lumberman and storekeeper in tiny Buctouche, N.B. (pop. 1,000), K. C. Irving early demonstrated the Midas touch. At five he sold the produce of his backyard garden (2? per cucumber); at ten he marketed the foil saved up from tea packages (4? per lb.). As a young man he sold Model Ts, and Fords led him logically to gas pumps. He started Irving Oil by installing a 10,000-gal. gasoline tank in his home town. From there, oil guided him into bus lines, tankers and refining...
Behind that line stands much more than tobacco. The $8 billion-a-year business affects dozens of manufacturers, 400,000 farmers, and 1,500,000 grocers, druggists and other retailers. It buys one-quarter of the nation's foil, is the third biggest user of cellophane and one of the largest consumers of paper products. Its $250 million-a-year advertising budget helps to support the nation's communications media-newspapers, magazines and, notably, television. Tobacco taxes earn more than $1 billion for the 50 states, more than $2 billion for the Federal Government...
Only Dan Kirsch (foil) and Larry Butler (sabre) won as many as two bouts; Harvard took just one of the nine bouts in the epee...