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While voicing U.S. indignation at what he called "this outrage" by the Communists, Johnson carefully avoided any sound of saber rattling. "Our response for the present," he said, "will be limited and fitting. We Americans know, although others appear to forget, the risks of spreading conflict. We still seek no wider...
...huts while their mothers hacked with mattocks in the maize patches. Down at the riverbank, "Captain" Nelson Maibolwa puttered with twin 18-h.p. outboard motors slung on a ramshackle wood-and-iron pontoon. Behind him flowed the sun-dappled, grey-green Zambezi, where crocodiles, hippos and shoals of saber-toothed tiger-fish eternally wait their prey. There came the sound of a laboring truck engine, and brawny, coal-black Captain Nelson peered down the rutted dirt track from the south as proudly as if Emma, Lady Hamilton were being piped aboard the poop deck. It was another load of passengers...
Debate in Steel. In the 18th century Hungarians introduced the modern saber, a descendant of the Mohammedans' curved scimitar, and by mid-19th century, Italians were dueling with the épée. Fencing, the swift and subtle debate in steel, had come...
...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 medals; even more remarkable, the Hungarians have won the team saber title in every Olympics since 1928, and failed to win only one individual gold medal in the past 56 years...
...list are captain Tom Musliner in the foil and Bob Damus in the saber. Marion reserved special praise for Musliner: "He is a real fighter; he has fencing in his blood and in his spirit...