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Harvard also seemed unchallenged in the opening match as Dan Blakinger, Carl Biello, and Jerry Kahrilas each won good bouts in the first three weight classes. At 142, freshman Boris Holmes appeared to be continuing the rout as he led throughout his match. Holmes, however was suddenly pancaked by his opponent and pressed for Columbia's first points...
...there any chance that the Pakistanis may yet engineer a startling turn of the tide, rout the Indians from the East and destroy the new nation in its infancy? Virtually none. As Correspondent Clark cabled: "Touts who are betting on the outcome between India and Pakistan might ponder the fact that two of the TIME correspondents who were visiting Pakistan this week [Clark in the West, Stewart deep in the East] were there with Indian forces...
...thinclads turned what was expected to be a close meet into a rout by winning many races they were supposed to lose and by taking seconds and thirds where they weren't expected...
Fresh from a season-opening rout over Southeastern Massachusetts on Saturday, Harvard's fencing team takes the Dudley St. bus crosstown for a 7 p.m. encounter with neighborhood rival MIT at the DuPont Athletic Center tonight...
Back in China after Sun's death, Chiang shrewdly used Communist forces to help rout various warlords and establish his command over Peking in 1928. But in the course of the campaign, he turned on the Communists and eventually drove them into the remote hills of Kiangsi. From that day to this, the two have been at war. In 1936, when Chiang was kidnaped by a group of Nationalist officers who wanted to stop the anti-Communist campaign and unite against the Japanese invaders, he refused to bow. "If you want to shoot me," he said...