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...Triangular Discipline. For the sailor who wants to win, Shields provides the formula. The aspirant must begin a year or so before he is born, by picking his parents right. They must raise the child with at least a summer home on river, lake or sea front. They need not be rich, though that helps. (Shields picked a rich father.) The aspiring skipper of America's Cup yachts must begin sailing-and sailing to win-early in his grade school years...
...Eero Saarinen traveled a long way to ward an architecture far beyond the glass-and-steel purism that seemed the ultimate in construction a decade ago. His Yale colleges are mounds of masonry; his Dulles airport terminal is canopied concrete; his CBS building a granite monument in great triangular piers. His headquarters (see opposite page) for Deere & Co., makers of farm machinery, returns to glass and steel-used in an utterly original...
...unifying the college's center of activity at the Quad, the completion of the new Study Center will end the Cliffies' daily triangular trek from dorm to classes to library and back again. The creation of the Center, and, following it, the Fourth House, will continue Radcliffe's transition of the last 30 years from a self-contained, largely-commuting college to an integrated, residential unit of the University...
...were six deer, one complete horse and the heads or bodies of five others, an antelope, three handsome and complete bison, a bull, some mountain goats, and a catlike creature. Cavemen, it is believed, made images of the animals they hunted to gain power over them. There was a triangular fertility symbol, and one clearly visible figure of a man, headless, but obviously male...
Cleared Smoke. The triangular division that Marxism is so prone to became evident even before Lenin's death in 1924. The right wing of the Central Committee was led by Bukharin, who wanted an even wider application of the NEP; the center was dourly controlled by Stalin; and the left followed Trotsky and the flamboyant Zinoviev. When the smoke cleared, Trotsky was again in exile, Zinoviev and Bukharin were dead, and Stalin was in power...