Word: foils
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...meet, which gave the Harvard foil squad a first-place Ivy ranking for the first time in nearly 30 years, marked the culmination of four years of building and training a strong Harvard team, captain Steve Biddle said yesterday...
Despite extremely strong performances by the foil and sabre squads, the Crimson was overcome by a powerful Columbia epee team that includes two recent Russian imports...
...part of its effort to make SALT II politically palatable, the Carter Administration ordered the development of the mobile MX, a ten-warhead successor to the three-warhead Minuteman, which would move around in a giant shell game to foil Soviet targeting. The trouble with MX is its mobile-basing mode. The system is hugely expensive (possibly as much as $100 billion) and terribly destructive of both the natural and social environment in which it would exist. More troublesome still are its military ramifications. If the U.S. goes ahead with a mobile MX, the Soviets may try to disguise...
...Cameron in particular came through and did a really outstanding job," Biddle said. "He kept his concentration, intensity and poise. He pulled in the only foil win in the first round...
...Notebook--David Merner finished ninth in the foil event at the National Junior Olympics...