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...director hovered around each bout to call the touches and check on fencing protocol. The undergraduates who crossed blades in the National Collegiate Fencing Championships last week could be sure no opponent would blind them with a handful of dust; no one would slip a sword through their legs, slice a tendon and leave them to be skewered at leisure...
...control of a country Matyas Rakosi once wrote, is to demand a little more each day, like cutting up a salami, thin slice after thin slice." Rakosalami tactics made Hungary one of the most useful of Soviet satellites. Slice by slice, Hungarian agricultural productivity was cut down to make way for industrial projects. Forced collectivization of farmlands drove farm workers into the factories, and the fertile country, once one of Europe's breadbaskets, had to import grain. But Hungarian steel and aluminum fattened the Soviet war potential and bulletheaded Boss Rakosi was so well regarded in Moscow that...
...bothers the Argentines little that neighboring Chile claims part of the same slice (see map}, but they simmer at Great Britain's pretensions to sovereignty over every square mile of Argentina's frozen empire. Since Strongman Juan Peron came to power in 1945. Argentina and Great Britain have carried on a sort of supercooled war along the antarctic coast, each protesting whenever the other side acts as though it regards any particular expanse...
...expedition's radioed accounts of its adventures made front-page headlines in Buenos Aires. The Argentines take great pride in their antarctic expeditions, and in the nation's claim to a huge pie-slice of the wind-whipped south-polar wasteland...
...Last month a Foreign Office spokesman in London issued a warning that Britain might be forced to disregard the three-nation pact if "incidents" kept occurring in Antarctica. The point was that the General San Martin's new base not only lay well within Britain's claimed slice of Antarctica but was near the announced starting point of a planned British-New Zealand attempt to make the first overland trek across the antarctic continent...