Word: triangulars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three races from 19-year-old Vim, her final opponent, and the selection committee judged Columbia the gem of the ocean, fit to meet Britain's Sceptre this weekend in the start of the four-out-of-seven series that will be raced alternately over triangular and windward-leeward courses ten miles off Newport...
...Roaring into a curve in Rheims's Grand Prix de France, Italy's Luigi Musso was a mere 100 yds. behind Britain's Mike Hawthorn. Musso gunned his Ferrari, hit the curve at 140 m.p.h., catapulted off the triangular course into a wheatfield, died. He was the last of Italy's great three. Alberto Ascari was killed in 1955; Eugenio Castellotti, Musso's closest friend and rival...
President Juscelino Kubitschek, who assumed sole responsibility for the project many Brazilians still consider fiscal folly, did the honors with a series of firsts. He attended the first service and the first wedding in Architect Oscar Niemeyer's swooping, triangular Chapel of Our Lady of Fatima. With his family and chef he moved into Niemeyer's long, low Palace of the Dawn, acted as host at the first dinner dance, spent his first night in the sumptuous presidential bedroom, took the first bath in the sunken marble presidential bathtub...
...cluster of crew-cuts congealed at a brick wall and pitched pennies and told jokes and joined in spasmodic bursts of coarse laughter. A gaunt, triangular face asserted by a brown goatee told Portia her slip was showing. "It's snowing down south," he said wryly...
...Harvard Debating Team defeated both Yale and Princeton in the annual triangular debate last Friday. The topic was "Resolved: That the United States should stop testing nuclear weapons...