Word: foils
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Leading the victory were the Crimson foilers, who won eight of their nine events. Pete Busch and Dan Kirsch each picked up three foil wins, while Ted Boersma won twice...
Opening their season at 5 p.m. today, the freshman fencing team will vie with M.I.T. Marion said he particularly hoped for a good performance by the foll segment of the squad, so some of its mem-could strengthen the weak varsity foil squad next season...
Lisa Commager was a beautiful and not unconvincing Zenocrate. She brought off her two major dramatic transitions with competence, if not eclat, and served as a restrained and lyrical foil to the military clangor of the others. Edmund Hennessy, on the other hand, did away with every sort of restraint in his nervous, grimacing portrayal of Mycetes, the effete King of Perisa. Hennessy was terribly funny, but his evident talent as a mime deserves more direction that it got. Now and then a gesture would jibe with a line. However, for the most part, he wasted a lot of inspired...
...From Göttingen to the Czech border, there are still many open patches where no fences are visible. But the woods have been cleared, and pylons are stockpiled, ready to be sunk. At the Czech border, the East Germans have run their fence to foil East Germans who might try to escape to the West through that corner of Czechoslovakia that borders on both East and West Germany...
...start of the space age with a sort of supranational arrogance. The human species seems about to master the solar system. The contrary may be the truth. Last week Lockheed Aircraft Corp. announced that it has a team of scientists hard at work, hoping to find a way to foil invasions of the earth that may well start from space. The invaders most to be feared will not be little green Venusians riding in flying saucers or any of the other intelligent monsters imagined by science fictioneers. Less spectacular but more insidious, the invaders may be alien microorganisms riding unnoticed...