Word: thors
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Harvard was led by an outstanding effort by its epee team. The Crimson gained a 9-0 decision when Jim O'Neil, Co-Captain Luca Cicchetti and Thor Wilbanks each won all three of their individual bouts...
...rockets appeared to be moving rather stably, producing the awesome Y-shaped pattern that millions of Americans will never forget. A burnthrough on the side of the casing, several rocket specialists say, would have sent the booster cartwheeling wildly through space. Bob Truax, a retired engineer who directed the Thor missile program in the 1950s, agrees. "After the explosion, they were continuing on a fairly normal trajectory," he says. "Even if you get a small leak, that hole would get bigger in a matter of seconds, and you'd have hell in a handbasket very quickly...
...life reads, anyhow, in Bob Woodward's mildly sensational, ultimately senseless account, Wired: The Short Life and Fast Times of John Belushi (Simon and Schuster, $17.95). The book, kicked off with a front-page serialization launch and favorable review in the Washington Post, where Au thor Woodward heads up the investigative reporting staff, is drawing the kind of hoopla usually kindled by more conventional show-biz behemoths; an excerpt has also appeared in Playboy. Like some Hollywood superproduction, the book boasts a long list of cameo appearances by stars (Jack Nicholson, Robin Williams, Robert De Niro, Carrie Fisher...
...David N. Thor Manila...
Kaufer, who finished 13-2 in the Ivies and 20-3 over-all, became the first Harvard fencer in over 50 years to claim one of the three individual weapons titles at the Easterns. The Crimson epee squad, made up of Kaufer and sophomores Giancarlo Cicchetti and Thor Wilbanks, tied Yale for first in the epee division...