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Fashionable as it was among Europe's silk-hosed aristocrats, fencing never really caught on in the leather-stockinged American colonies. "When the settlers came to America," explains Ed Lucia, a top U.S. fencing coach, "they came with an ax, not with a sword." Even today many Americans consider the sport effete-incorrectly, for swordsmanship throughout history has been equated with valor, stamina, agility. Fencing is still dominated by the swordsmen of Europe. Frenchmen have won individual foils in seven of the last 13 Olympic competitions. Italian Olympians have won the last six individual épée gold...
...fencing title away from Columbia. Princeton's team captain, National Foil Champion Bill Hicks, was a nine-letter man in three sports in high school, turned down an offer from baseball's St. Louis Cardinals to go on to college. By meet's end, Fencing Mentor Lucia's C.C.N.Y. team was down in 15th place, but Lucia himself-former U.S. team coach for the world championships-was named U.S. collegiate fencing coach of the year, presented with the double edged ceremonial sword symbolic of the title. On the sword's handle is a carving...
...OPERA COMPANY (NBC, 2-4 p.m.). Lucia di Lammermoor in English, with Linda Newman, Michael Trimbel and Richard Torigi. Color...
...golden age" of opera singers, a tiny Milanese with a flutelike voice who was a sensation at her 1908 debut in Rigoletto at Trani (a provincial Italian town where she was paid $60 a month), moved to the U.S. in 1916 to sing the great coloratura roles (Rosina, Lucia, Lakmé) with both the Metropolitan and Chicago Operas earning up to $15,000 a performance while on tour, retired in the 1930s to California but continued through her many recordings to haunt opera buffs and reigning coloraturas alike; of emphysema; in La Jolla, Calif...
...engines feathered, coasted over the southern coastal town of Casilda. Parachuting a yellow flare to light up the target, it launched three rockets at the town's oil storage tanks, setting fire to a railroad tank car. In another night attack, two landing craft slipped up the Santa Lucia estuary to the heavily guarded Patricio Lumumba metal-processing plant. A raiding party scrambled ashore, took careful aim, and laid down a barrage of bazooka shells. When militiamen returned fire, the raiders made an orderly retreat, covered by machine guns. But they left their mark: gaping holes in the plant...