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Vastola carefully adapts his game to his opponent. Last year, former Crimson captain and sabre fencer John Chipman--a lightning quick and superbly skilled attacker--repeatedly lost to fencers infinitely inferior to him. Typically, Chipman would utilize four or five feints on opponents who couldn't even see, never mind be deceived by them. They would poke their points forward in fearful reflex and touch Chipman's mask or torso...
...Vietnamese air force is vastly inferior to the Chinese in quantity, but the quality is vastly superior. Hanoi has 300 combat aircraft in all; about 700 Chinese planes are within striking range of Viet Nam. Most of those ready for combat, however, are outdated MiG-17s and MiG-19s, whereas the Vietnamese have not only the slightly more advanced MiG-21s but also the versatile F-5 "freedom fighters" captured from the Americans...
...Harvard squash team increased its season's record to 6-2 in an easy victory over the inferior Dartmouth squad yesterday, sweeping all nine matches...
...only had one consistent wrestler," he said, adding that other squad members continually lost to opponents who, at least on paper, were inferior to them...
...country had fallen upon hard times. Group IV plans to show 39 episodes, taking the Bellamys only up to 1914 and the start of World War I. The best news, however, is that eight of the 39 are the famous missing hours, those episodes that Masterpiece Theater unaccountably deemed inferior and therefore failed to show in the U.S. For those who love the Bellamys, the broadcast of the lost eight is a signal cultural event, almost as important as if someone were to discover the missing fragments of the Satyricon or the diary of Lord Byron...