Word: foiled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fred Boersma and Peter Busch each scored two victories and suffered one defeat in the foil, while Steve Khinoy won one and Dan Kirsch lost two bouts in the same event...
...fencing team lost to a strong Penn team over the weekend, 13-9. In the foil, the Crimson lost all matches; at saber, two wins by Pusey and Winig, and one by Kennedy led Harvard to a 5-4 win. At epee, wins by Spitser, McCloskey and Khinoy were not enough to give Harvard a victory...
...bout will be with the foil which is a modern descendent of the short dross sword. The conventional fencing weapon, it weighs 17 ounces and is 43 inches long. A seven-touch duel will "be equivalent to five rounds in a boxing match," Marion said...
...fencers, who usually succeed in impressing everyone with their unusual abilities, succeeded again Saturday. In the foil matches, Harvard, through the efforts of Jai Yuh, claimed one victory out of nine attempts...
...operation began when a Thor rocket took off from Cape Canaveral just before dawn carrying a canister containing a tightly folded deflated balloon of plastic film and aluminum foil. This was Echo A12, an experimental successor to Echo I, the 100-ft. radio-reflector that was launched on Aug. 12, 1960, and is still orbiting the earth. Echo A12 was not expected to orbit; its job was merely to expand in space and test a new kind of aluminized film that would stay rigid after the gas that blew up the balloon had escaped through meteor punctures...