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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...MIT followers tried everything their mathematical brains could think of but the Engineers' manipulations couldn't alter the plain fact that when the Harvard-MIT fencing match ended at 10:15 last night the score added up to a 15-12 victory for the Crimson...

Author: By Stephen A. Herzenberg, | Title: Crimson Fencers Bloody MIT, 15-12, As Eric Mandelbaum Points the Way | 12/1/1977 | See Source »

After two matches this year the Harvard fencing team has conquered the British in the shape of the Sandhurst military academy, and now MIT...

Author: By Stephen A. Herzenberg, | Title: Crimson Fencers Bloody MIT, 15-12, As Eric Mandelbaum Points the Way | 12/1/1977 | See Source »

...Ford Administration, he had met Sadat two years ago when Sadat visited Washington. Quickly re-establishing a rapport, Kennerly accompanied Sadat on his daily walks along the Suez Canal, visited with his family, and toured the country in his private helicopter. One day when Sadat and Kennerly were in Mit Abu el Kom, Sadat's home village, the President looked up to the sky and lamented the fact that so many Egyptian military planes now flew over the once tranquil town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Nov. 28, 1977 | 11/28/1977 | See Source »

Even as a youth, Egypt's Anwar Sadat, 58, had an elevated sense of his own destiny. At 14, he fell into an irrigation canal near his home village of Mit Abu el Kom. Saved from drowning, he was asked what his last thought had been as he went under the water. The answer: "If I drown, Egypt will have lost Anwar Sadat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Sadat: The Village Elder | 11/28/1977 | See Source »

Sadat is a paradoxical mix of East and West. He likes English clothes and enjoys his presidential perquisites-including nine official residences, which he shares with his wife Jihan, 43. One of his homes is in Mit Abu el Kom. There he dons a peasant gallabiya to relax. He is as devout a Muslim as Israel's Begin is a Jew-his forehead bears a mark from touching it so often to the ground in prayer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Sadat: The Village Elder | 11/28/1977 | See Source »

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