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Captain Fred Sherman speculated after last Friday's triangular meet with Columbia and Penn that the Crimson's troubles so far this season were due to lousy weather conditions. Sherman added, "We really need to sweep the Amherst. Tufts meet. We thought our team would be very good before the season started, but now we've begun to wonder...
...Harvard golfers, hoping to notch their first victory of the season, will face Penn and Columbia in a triangular meet this afternoon at the Plymouth Country Club in Norristown...
Because of its basic simplicity, the Wankel engine has long been considered a strong contender to supplant piston engines in mass-produced autos. Invented in 1954 by a mechanical wizard named Felix Wankel, the engine replaces conventional cylinders and pistons with a triangular rotor that revolves in a combustion chamber shaped like a fat figure eight. The spinning rotor not only controls the intake of gasoline and exhaust of burned gases, but turns the shaft that drives the wheels of the car. Thus Wankel engines have far fewer moving parts than piston engines. Moreover, they lack valves, rods, lifters...
...That enables the dome dwellers to live in an uncluttered, unpartitioned hemisphere with enough space below the main living level for bathroom and storage facilities. Conventionally designed doors and windows pose aesthetic difficulties: the traditional right-angled shapes do not fit gracefully into a dome's curves. Thus triangular windows and entrances that tunnel under the dome's walls are gaining favor...
This was the first year that the swimming competition was limited to just one tournament. In the past each House has participated in four triangular meets...