Word: foils
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...modern micromodules, tiny gadgets that electronic engineers believe will soon replace most of the tangled guts of familiar apparatus. Least radical of the miniature gadgets are the "thin-film circuits." In the Philco version they are glass or ceramic sheets a few hundredths of an inch thick, covered with foil-thin layers of tantalum, chromium and gold. On top of the gold is a photosensitive material that becomes insoluble when exposed to light. The diagram of a desired circuit is printed by strong light on the photosensitive surface. Then the unexposed parts are dissolved, and the bare gold and chromium...
...weeks ago in Cambridge, Mass., such tempering paid off. In the biggest, most proficient championships ever, Princeton's aggressive, three-man team beat 37 challengers to take the national collegiate fencing title away from Columbia. Princeton's team captain, National Foil Champion Bill Hicks, was a nine-letter man in three sports in high school, turned down an offer from baseball's St. Louis Cardinals to go on to college. By meet's end, Fencing Mentor Lucia's C.C.N.Y. team was down in 15th place, but Lucia himself-former U.S. team coach for the world...
Dave Dooley and Rich Kolombatavitch will fence foil. The sabre group includes three experienced men other than Kolb...
Princeton's Hicks provided many of the thrills of the tournament, racking up 32 wins and losing only to N.Y.U.'s star fencer Marvin Garovoy (29-4). Winner of the individual foil championship award and a member of the First All American Team, Hicks was voted the Illinois Memorial Trophy for "best Fencer of the Year...
Garovoy, first-place winner in the Easterns, ranked second in individual foil awards. Cornell's Ron Schwartz (26) took third place. The top three individual winners in each weapon made the Olympics...