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...favorites turned out to be a powerful Dutch team and the Poles, a surprise contender. The Dutch, with soccer's finest player, Johan Cruyff, struggled through some ragged early games, but by last week they were attacking with precision. The Polish team, which upset England in the elimination rounds, arrived in West Germany relatively unknown. Though the Poles do not favor the star system, not even the most solid collective front could hide Grzegorz Lato, a great right forward who leads the team's bruising, tireless attack. Going into last weekend, the Polish team had the best record...
...individual competition, MIT's Johan Ackerman followed up the Engineers' team foil title by winning the individual crown. Ackerman, a member of the Swedish Olympic team, was never in serious trouble in Saturday's finals. In epee, NYU's Albert Peters upset his more highly-touted teammates Risto Hurme and Hans Weiselgrin to win the individual title, and still another NYU teammate, Peter Westbrook, bested Columbia's Tom Losonczy in a fence-off for the sabre title...
...biggest surprise of the competition came from MIT, which captured the individual team title in foil. Paced by Swedish Olympic team member Johan Akerman, the Engineers ran up 26 wins to bring the foil title back to New England for the first time since 1931. Harvard was the last New England squad to capture the "Iron Man" trophy for the IFA foil title...
...exposure, though, has helped some individual stars to cash in on international fame. There is no shinier soccer star in Europe than Ajax's high-scoring center forward Johan Cruyff (rhymes more or less with rife), 26, a sinewy young Dutchman with strong, quick legs and fluttering, long hair. His salary as a player-250,000 guilders a year-is among the highest in the sport...
...most exposed country on NATO's northern flank. For the past decade, the Soviet navy has staged big exercises in the Norwegian Sea, making the point that Norway, with no land connection to the rest of NATO, is at the mercy of whichever country rules the waves. Johan Jorgen Hoist, research director of the Norwegian Foreign Policy Institute, warns that the Soviets intend "to push their naval defense line outwards to Iceland and the Faeroes," which could turn the Norwegian Sea into what he calls "a Soviet lake...