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...number three and four fencers, Carolyn Powell and Suzy Rivitz, both ended the day with 10-6 records. Powell, recovering some of the confidence she seemed to lose midway through the season, used her quickness and agility to devastate most of her early opponents. Despite her MSG poisoning, Rivitz deceived many of her opponents with her quick parry and counterattack. Standing with her blade low and body frozen, she lured unsuspecting foes forward before trapping them with her speedy response...

Author: By Stephen A. Herzenberg, | Title: Women Fencers Place Fourth In New England Tournament | 3/20/1979 | See Source »

...tour was not all work, no play, however. "We took half a day off on the Oregon Beach, and we saw Disneyland," Gorjance said. The group also stopped in at Yellowstone ("It snowed on us, can you believe it?"), and the Grand Canyon ("It really made the tour.") Midway through the tour, the Glee Club spent about a week in Southern California, where it performed in the open-air Hollywood Bowl under Mstislav Rostropovich and the Los Angeles Philharmonic...

Author: By Cynthia A. Torres, | Title: The Harvard Glee Club: Life After F. John Adams | 3/12/1979 | See Source »

...York City Ballet Superdancer Mikhail Baryshnikov, two weeks in Washington was a head over heel experience. Midway in the company's Kennedy Center program, Misha gave a special performance in the White House East Room; while dancing with Ballerina Patricia McBride, he soared so high in a flashing cabriole that his head very nearly collided with a massive crystal chandelier. Surviving that, Baryshnikov, alas, was unexpectedly hobbled by a familiar dancer's affliction, an aggravated Achilles' tendon, and forced to miss his final performances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 12, 1979 | 3/12/1979 | See Source »

Dartmouth led 2-0 after the first period on goals by Don O'Brien and Murphy. In the second, Buddy Teevens scored the lone Dartmouth goal as B.U. tied it with a tally by Mark Fidler and two by Mickey Mullen. Chip Bettencourt sewed it up for the Green midway through the final frame...

Author: By Peter Mcloughlin, | Title: Dartmouth and UNH Triumph, Reach ECAC Hockey Final | 3/10/1979 | See Source »

...Midway through the second period the networks cut the disaster off the air. No one ever did learn the final score. Congress scheduled hearings on the affair. Kissinger mournfully intoned that once again the Carter Administration had not understood the use of power: we should never have given the Soviets the ball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Armageddon in the Superdome | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

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