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When Henry Kissinger had begun his triangular diplomacy by secretly visiting Peking the year before, it was a shock to the Soviet leadership. Gromyko went about for weeks with a black expression. His deputy Makarov said that Brezhnev had given Gromyko a thorough dressing-down for not anticipating the American-Chinese rapprochement...
...committee's problem was the unpredictable ways in which languages evolve: the panel had to devise forms of communication that could be understood by the next 300 or so generations. One suggestion is a waste repository with a series of raised earth barriers built around it in a triangular pattern. Within this wedge would be monument-like markers, as durable and detectable as England's Stonehenge monoliths. These structures would bear triangular warning symbols or cartoons as simple in design as the 17,000-year-old cave drawings by Cro-Magnon man in France. One proposed sequence...
Witnesses described the Chinese crime incursion as the work of ancient Triads (the name stems from their triangular symbol). Police Chief Jon Elder of Monterey Park, a Los Angeles suburb, testified that his city had had eight shootings in just the past few months among Asian gangs seeking "power and supremacy" in the town, which has a population that is 35% Asian. He described one victim of a ritual Triad punishment as having been slashed 200 times with a saber, deliberately left maimed but alive. A commission investigator claimed that a prosperous businessman in Manhattan's Chinatown, Edward...
...Anthony Delon, 19, the bad-boy son of French Actor Alain Delon, frolicking on the beach "in tender insolence." But to Monaco's royal family the only insolence was in the behavior of Paris Match. The Aug. 17 issue featured an eight-page spread detailing the triangular affair of Princess, Delon and her longtime boyfriend Paul Belmondo, 21, son of the actor Jean-Paul. The palace went to court, claiming an invasion of privacy, but a French judge refused to stop publication. Huffed Nadia Lacoste, spokeswoman for the Grimaldis: "I don't think anyone tracks gangsters...
...Peru; a shopping center near Dallas; high-rise buildings for San Antonio and Manhattan; and several town-house clusters in Houston. One completed ten-unit group of the Houston town houses looks, characteristically, like something put together by a gifted child with an oversize Lego toy set: white triangular roofs, extruding yellow strips and even more extruding blue boxes. The houses are designed to provide young urban professional tenants with a sense of efficiency and space on minimal, close-to-downtown lots, and at a reasonable cost. The typical unit contains a garage, a foyer and a ½-story living...