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...well. ¶ Although their only national champion, Epee Expert James Margolis, was sidelined with a pulled tendon, Columbia University swordsmen lunged across the ballroom of The Bronx's Concourse Plaza Hotel with such swashbuckling skill that they piled up 71 points in foil, épée and saber bouts, and won the three-weapon intercollegiate title. Second: N.Y.U. with 66. ¶ The Fish and Wildlife Service reported an alltime record sale of 19,276,767 fishing licenses and 14,918,416 hunting licenses in fiscal 1957. California, which led the U.S. in fishermen, reported a sobering development...
...Star-Spangled Banner so far as music is concerned." A bright-eyed 72 when the film was shot. Truman favored posterity with his sunburst smile and flashes of his shrewdness, wisdom and trove of history. The camera and microphone etched the old cockiness and the saber-toothed campaigning technique as well as it caught the homespun simplicity and twinkling humor. Thanks partly to skilled editing, but mostly to its star's sheer self-characterization as an uncommon common man, the show was an uncommonly evocative historic document that made TV history of its own. Items...
...Saber. He could use the épée as well as the saber...
...text which he had written out during the afternoon. Said he of the NATO meeting: "There was one basic purpose implicit in every discussion and debate of the conference. That was the pursuit of a just peace. Not once during the week did I hear any slightest hint of saber-rattling or of aggressive intent. Of course, all of us were concerned with developing the necessary spiritual, economic and military strength of our defensive alliance...
...assured the monarch that the U.S. was willing to cooperate fully with pro-Western Morocco, expressed a readiness to step up economic and military aid. For his part, Mohammed V had shown where his heart lies: his personal gift to the President of the U.S. was a jewel-encrusted saber inscribed with a passage from the Koran: "The triumph comes from God and the victory is at hand...