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...first of 25 F-15 Eagles, the newest, fastest (top speed: Mach 2.5) and most agile U.S. fighter. Israel's other combat planes (principally F-4 Phantoms and the Israeli-designed Kfirs) are being outfitted with the latest electronic gadgets to aid in night flying missions and foil antiaircraft missiles. The Shrike air-to-surface missile has been deployed to knock out the radars on which antiaircraft batteries depend. In addition, Israel is receiving "smart" bombs, which can be guided onto targets. Still on Jerusalem's shopping list are American RPVs (remotely piloted vehicles), which can counter...
Teammate and co-captain-elect John Major performed excellently in the foil event of the meet. Major was eliminated in the last round of the quarterfinal competition last Friday night by U.S. Olympic team member Bert Freeman...
Whenever the Schecter family would have friends over to their Moscow apartment, they would turn their record player up full blast to foil the bugs that they assumed were planted around them. As Steven C. Schecter '78 recalled in an interview last month, this paranoia "even lingered when we first got back. We were secretive in talking about certain things, but gradually loosened up." After two years of inhibition, the Schecters did indeed loosen up--enough to to produce a book that seemingly leaves no stone unturned in its recollection of their Russian experience...
...practiced it to rescue damsels in distress. The Three Musketeers used it to harass the English and French nobility. Douglas Fairbanks made a career out of it. And Thursday night at the IAB 22 swash-buckling swordsmen defended the honor of their respective Houses with the sword in the foil division of the intramural fencing competition...
Kirkland took top honors in the match. In a crucial final duel, sophomores Brian McCarren and Bruce Gordon battled to a 4-4 tie, but McCarren wielded the winning foil and took the match, 5-4. Gordon finished second in the competition...