Word: gordon
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...rest of the sabre squad was equally disappointing Saturday. Gordon Rutledge in the second pool, and Walt Morris in the third were largely unable to get untracked, and both failed to mount much of a challenge for a spot in the finals...
...Sudan, Cleo A. Noel Jr., and the outgoing charge d'affaires, George C. Moore, as well as a Belgian diplomat were murdered by Arab terrorists (see WORLD). Noel thus became the second U.S. ambassador to be killed by terrorists in less than five years. In 1968, John Gordon Mein was slain in Guatemala while trying to escape from kidnapers...
...Sears flew to Washington with a briefcase containing $200,000 in cash. They delivered it to Maurice Stans, chairman of the Nixon campaign finance committee. The money was deposited in Stans' safe. This is the same safe from which large amounts of money were disbursed to G. Gordon Liddy, who was convicted of conspiracy and wiretapping in the bugging of Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate...
This weekend, the smart money again would back the sabre men to lead the Harvard effort. With veteran performers like Terry Valenzuela (who missed the finals last year only because he lost a fence-off for the last slot) and Gordon Rutledge, Marion can count on a reasonably strong showing. While Valenzuela lost out in his bid to make the All-Ivy fencing squad through the proverbial "choke" in the season's finale against Yale (he lost three straight bouts), he is still one of the finest sabre men in the East, and should have little trouble making the finals...
Chief consolation for Marion was the Crimson performance in foil. Howie Weiss, who won three, Phillipe Bennett and Dave Fichter, who each took a pair apiece, completely dominated the Eli foil contingent. Gordon Rutledge's two wins in sabre also helped ease Marion's anguish at the heartbreaking reversal...