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Both varsity and freshman cross country squads took firs place yesterday in a triangular meet with Columbia and Penn in New York's Van Cortlandt Park...
...Randolph and the choppers strained to catch their first glimpse of it. Automatically the small, tough drogue parachute opened at 21,000 ft., checking the capsule's falling speed. One minute later, the great, striped, red-and-white main parachute (with a 6-in. triangular tear in it) blossomed like a zinnia and gently lowered the Liberty Bell 7 toward the almost waveless sea. Four choppers flailed toward the impact point...
...oddball craft that fluttered over Otay Mesa near San Diego last week looked like a refugee from a museum of aviation antiques. But the ungainly contraption was more modern than that. Its triangular nylon wing, transparent and flexible as a shower curtain (see cut), was the Ryan Aeronautical Co.'s latest attempt to solve some of the problems of space-age flight...
...Prevent Frying. The army is spending $75 million on Kwajalein, and the island already looks like the set for a science-fiction movie. Close to the coral beach, a circular, steel-mesh fence, 65 ft. high and 680 ft. in diameter, surrounds a rotating, triangular radar antenna, 80 ft. on a side. This electronic monster is named ZAR (Zeus Acquisition Radar), and when it sends its pulses into space to probe for incoming missiles, the fence will act as a shield to keep the powerful radio waves from frying all Kwajalein. Crewmen operating ZAR will go to work through...
...first time in five years, the Harvard freshman debating team won the annual Triangular Debates with Yale and Princeton. The topic was "Resolved: That the state and federal governments initiate a substantial bomb shelter program immediately...