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Captain Kathy Lowry led the Crimson charge, pasting her easy early opponents, trading bouts with the toughies, and finishing with a rush as she lost but three times in 16 bouts. By beating Yale's Peacock, who was also 13-3, she qualified for the individual finals on the basis of indicators (touches for minus touches against...
What that line is remains unclear, and how Moscow might respond if it is crossed remains perhaps the most troublesome question of all. Australia's Foreign Minister, Andrew Peacock, for one, fretted last week that if the Indochina squabble got much hotter and broader there "would be grave implications for both the region and beyond...
Bouncing back from her 1-2 performance in the women's earlier 15-1 loss to Cornell, Lowry fenced with her usual authority and decisiveness. She disposed of Jill Peacock and Connie Hume by 5-2 scores, using her favorite quick, high lunge to gather easy touches. She had more difficulty with Beth Feldman and Beth Merritt; but she edged both, 5-4, finishing off the former by disentangling her blade after missing with a low lunge then jabbing Feldman below the neck...
...Tehran. Huyser, the deputy commander of U.S. forces in Europe, had been sent to Iran a month ago to dissuade the country's military leaders from attempting a coup. Antigovernment forces accused Huyser of plotting to push the army into power and place the Shah back on the Peacock Throne...
...couldn't break through either. But by 1953, American agents managed to move directly to the heart of Iranian politics, placing Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi on the throne his father had fled in 1941. And once he disappeared behind the awesome symbols and deadly trappings of autocratic power--the Peacock Throne and the phantom jet--both the Shah and the United States lost sight of any Iran beyond the central court and the romantic exotica of ancient Persia...