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Divorced. By Sheila MacRae, 43, nightclub comedienne and long-suffering but saber-tongued second TV wife of Jackie Gleason in The Honeymooners; Gordon MacRae, 46, pop balladeer and film star (Oklahoma!, Carousel): by mutual consent on grounds of incompatibility; after 25 years of marriage, four children; in Juarez, Mexico...
...Harvard will have to get ready without team captain and number one saber Bob Damus, who is in California. Damus, who dropped two matches against C.C.N.Y. last week is still the fastest fencer on the team...
...land is at all open, the falconer's choice by far is the princely peregrine falcon, a relatively small (about 2 lbs.) saber-winged hawk that puts on a breathtaking display...
...cavalry charge, it was something of a flop. The objective was a sprawl of scrub-grown hills known as "the Crow's Foot," and the mounts were hulking, olive-drab helicopters. Not a single cavalryman carried a saber; instead they cradled automatic rifles in their arms. No plumed, defiant enemy fell to their swift assault, only 47 scrawny, half-naked guerrillas. Yet in its unromantic rendezvous with the Viet Cong last week, the U.S. 1st Cavalry (Airmobile) was far more effective than anything recorded in the dancing dactyls of Tennyson...
...dwarf retainers, Velasquez has the final word. And so it has always been the artist's task to report on the figures and events of his day, whether it be the hanging of a Savonarola in Florence or the thrust of the Civil War cavalryman's saber as seen by Winslow Homer...