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Harvard's saber-swordsmen broke a 9-9 deadlock with three consecutive vitories to open the third round, then the epee and foil teams withstood a determined MIT comeback, as the Crimson humbled their competitors from the trade school down the river, 15-12, at the IAB last evening...
Crimson fencer Bernadette Drankowski lunged forward but the point of her foil blade came up short of her opponent's neck. Rather than clearing Drankowski's blade to the side and responding with a counter-attack, Rhode Island College fencer Joleen Morinho obligingly left the point inches from her vest so that Drankowski, after a momentary pause, could push the foil forward for the touch...
...wall in the living room of Steve Potysman's suite in Quincy House is an enormous moose head. It has a Harvard golf cap on, tin foil in its eye sockets and a telephone receiver dangling from its antlers in the region of its left ear. Is this something that is passed on to this room year after year? "Poty" is asked...
President Carter's failure to return the rhetoric of the Shanghai Communique is grounded partly in his fear of a pro-Taiwanese Congress. More significantly, perhaps, China offers Carter the perfect foil against what he sees as an increasingly antagonistic Soviet Union. When he visited China last spring, Zbigniew Brzezinski stood on the Great Wall and pointed to the north, hinting of an alliance against "the polar bear." But in the balancing process, an effective independent China policy has been sacrificed to the game of superpower diplomacy...
...degree in jail and now defends the poor and downtrodden. His legal methods are pushy, his language rough, but you can be sure he gets results for his clients. Smartly enough, the series' creators have also provided the hero with a perfect foil: Patrick O'Neal as an elegant corporate lawyer who takes Kaz into his firm. Whenever it seems that Leibman might burn a hole in the tube, Old Pro O'Neal trots out to cool things down...