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...match had started auspiciously enough. Both sabre and epee teams swept all three of their bouts, though the foil squad was disappointing, dropping two out of three matches. In foil, highly regarded freshman Phillipe Bennett made a dubious collegiate debut by dropping his first bout 5-1, and Dave Fichter followed suit, losing a 5-3 decision...
...Harvard's ineptness, SMU simply wasn't as bad as everyone had predicted. The Corsair foil team was agressive and, according so Marion, "stylistically sound...
...scoring breakdown, by weapon, went like this. Harvard foil and epee teams took six out of nine bouts each. The sabre squad was 5-4, although the first team was 3-0 before leaving...
Individually freshman foil man John Walinski, Ellis (also in foil), and senior sabre man Walt Morris each won two bouts without a loss...
That still does not explain why the planes crash in the first place. Although the F-111 was designed as an all-weather craft, some flyers speculate that dense rain squalls in Viet Nam somehow foil the plane's complex TFR (terrain-following radar), which permits it to skim treetops at 200 ft. above ground at speeds of more than 500 m.p.h. Others suggest that the dense tropical humidity in Southeast Asia somehow damages its complex electronic circuits governing flight and navigational controls. But no one really knows for sure. After returning from an F-111 mission over Laos...