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Of the other fencers, skipper Gene Vastola, as usual, had the best record on the day. He swept aside three Eli fencers with identical 5-2 scores. Against his first opponent, Bruce Murray, Vastola had two almost double-jointed touches. By making his arm and blade into a "V" by...
In the U.S., Taiwan's longtime friends in the Senate were furious over the rapprochement with Peking. Utah Republican Orrin Hatch contemptuously called Carter's foreign affairs advisers "loose-jointed and weak-kneed diplomats" and declared that the President should have held out for a better deal on Taiwan. Said...
It is years since sedentary jokers could get away with the line: "I get enough exercise acting as a pallbearer to my friends who exercise." Regular exercise can help make one healthier. The injuries result from the delusion that a few hours of sports are helpful. Eighty percent of the...
Such injuries as girls and women do suffer can often be blamed on improper condition or coaching. Girls are more loose-jointed than boys, making them somewhat more susceptible to injuries like dislocated shoulders. Women can also have problems with what is known as the "overload phenomenon"-putting too much...
Still, the book is so amiable and loose-jointed, perhaps like the U.S. itself, that the reader is happy to wade through balderdash to the next bit of good storytelling or good sense. Meanwhile, what about this name change? Why Morgan? Why not Carnegie or Rockefeller? Why not Svensen or...