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Crimson sabre man Gordon Rutledge broke out of his season-long slump to lead the Harvard attack, winning three without a setback. In fact, the sabre team as a whole backboned the Harvard win. Terry Valenzuela won two bouts and Walt Morris added another triumph to amass a 6-3 Harvard advantage over the Knights...
...dramatic impact of Weiss's loss notwithstanding, the Crimson setback can really be traced to the failure of the sabre team to produce against Columbia. Harvard was unable to pick up more than one sabre win in any single round. Crimson captain Terry Valenzuela accounted for two triumphs, coming back from a first-round loss to All-Ivy Lion, Tom Losonzy, to take 5-3, 5-4 wins...
...sabre team, which had of late looked the dominating force it was a year ago, suffered a blunt setback, losing 5-4. And it would have been worse if Crimson captain Terry Valenzuela, who should be a shoo-in for All-Ivy honors, hadn't come up with an outstanding performance, winning three straight...
...larger sense, the President's budget represents an intangible psychological setback to the progress of our city and to the hopes of our people. The indirect consequences--to our economic prosperity, to our soical progress, to our neighborhood revitalization--can't be measured in terms of dollars or programs...
...leaving Eastern and Braniff as the only potential takers in the U.S. Said Sir George Edwards, chairman of British Aircraft Corp., which along with France's Aerospatiale is building the Concorde: "We should not describe this as a fatal blow, but it's a hell of a setback...