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...women of Side by Side revolve around Bundy as he balances the trio, providing a foil for their criticism of men. His rich, strong voice and bearded mugging make songs like "Could I Leave You?" (In a minute!) hilarious. He moves a little heavily about the stage in the beginning but catches up to the very fast, controlled pace of the other two in the second half of the show...

Author: By Sarah L. Mcvity, | Title: Fluffy But Filling | 3/5/1981 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Wendy L. Wall, | Title: Crimson Fencers Split Meet With Yale | 3/2/1981 | See Source »

...almost unstoppable foil squad--which lost only two of nine bouts--both the sabre and epee teams rallied and turned in winning scores for their rounds. Three of the nine swordsmen took all their bouts, and three more went...

Author: By Wendy L. Wall, | Title: Crimson Fencers Split Meet With Yale | 3/2/1981 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Wendy L. Wall, | Title: Men, Women Fencers Foiled During Marathon Weekend | 2/23/1981 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Rebuild the Image | 2/23/1981 | See Source »

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