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From the results of the Yale contest, CCNY appears to be strongest in epee. The Beaver epee squad took eight out of nine bouts from Yale. The CCNY trio of Lee, Karussos, and Warren, will provide a stiff challenge for Harvard's epee squad...
Larry Bryggman gives Kurt a set of bobbing eyebrows and poses which sometimes seem too stiff, too prolonged even for a tycoon from the age of Rockefeller. At times his politeness grows strident and reveals the exploiter that lurks beneath, but never quite clearly enough...
...Crimson hockey team meets defending NCAA champion Boston University tonight at 8 p.m. at Walter Brown Memorial Rink in its first stiff test of the season...
Journalistic freedom in Britain occasionally takes second place to legal restraints such as the Official Secrets Act, which guards government information. Even in civil affairs, a stiff law restricts coverage of matters under court review if the stories could influence the outcome of specific cases. For ten years this civil restriction has throttled coverage of a poignant and important story: the long legal fight, still proceeding in the courts, over damages to be paid to those crippled by the drug thalidomide. The London Sunday Times has now torn apart the gag rule, setting up a classic court v. press conflict...
...problem. Pinhas Koppell, a former police inspector-general, has been put in charge of the Football Federation and will supervise a threeyear, $750,000 program to civilize soccer. Referees have been granted disability pay if injured, and their life insurance policies have been doubled. Penalties for violence are stiff and swift. For damaging a referee's car, the players on one team were suspended for up to three years, and their stadium was closed down. For spitting at a referee, Jerusalem Hapoel's Zion Turjeman was suspended for four games (weakened by the loss of its star left...