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...mood thus restored, the trouble spots got engulfed in the pageantry. The two statesmen rode in triumph in an open-top black Citroen between ten-deep lines of Parisians, escorted by red-white-and-blue-uniformed motorcycle cops, later by shining-helmeted swordsmen of the Garde Republicaine. That afternoon, amid dignified rather than hysterical applause, they drove up the Champs-Elysees to the tomb of the Unknown Soldier beneath the Arc de Triomphe. There the President saluted, walked past a guard of honor of hard. fit. proud-looking troops, laid a wreath of pink lilies and red roses beside...
...eight and 91 passengers, including three babies in arms, a honeymoon couple, 13 members of the Church of the Brethren from Lancaster County, Pa., three Polish immigrants to the U.S., an Israeli and his wife on the way to see their American grandchildren in The Bronx and six swordsmen of the Egyptian fencing team bound for an international meet in Philadelphia...
There was a rebirth of interest in the fencing team as Coach Edo Marion's swordsmen had a creditable 7-5 record for the season. Mitch Thomas was perhaps the premier performer on the team at sabre as he made the second team All-America. The Crimson wrestlers had only an average season as they finished fifth in the Ivy League and were edged by Yale, 16 to 10. Captain Bob Foster went through the season undefeated and will be back next year as will Joe Noble who suffered only one loss. The winter's sole undefeated team...
free-style championships; slim Tim Jecko splashed off with the 100-and 200-yd. butterfly and the 200-yd. individual medley as 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...
Freshman epee fencers turned into foil swordsmen last night as Harvard squeaked by M.I.T. to win a bizarre match...