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M.I.T. and Boston University are favored to become the first victims of the varsity cross country team as it opens its quest for a third consecutive undefeated season this afternoon. The triangular meet will be run on the 4.2 mile Franklin Park course...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Harriers Face M.I.T., B.U. In Opening Meet | 10/5/1956 | See Source »

Unlike the conventional triangular division, with its top-heavy headquarters units and its sizable "land-tail" (heavy weapon units, regimental tank companies, etc.), all of the new division and its specially designed, lightweight equipment can be airlifted. At its heart will be five self-supporting battle groups, each 1,580 men strong, and each containing a 155-man 105-millimeter mortar group and a small (220) headquarters outfit. The groups, broken down into five battle companies each, will be backed up in combat by an atom-armed 140-man Honest John rocket detachment, by a 500-man 105-howitzer group...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Screaming Eagles | 10/1/1956 | See Source »

Furthermore, this year's senior members have never been defeated. As Yardlings, they compiled the first undefeated record since 1920, and once in this winning habit, they won over all comers in dual and triangular competition...

Author: By William C. Sigal, | Title: Harriers Seek Third Undefeated Year | 9/28/1956 | See Source »

...shaped rig (see cut) adds speed and helps prevent boats from tipping, says its inventor, General Electric Co. Engineer Burnice D. Bedford. The new shape spills wind underneath the sail rather than over it, causing a "lifting" effect. It measures 120 sq. ft. v. 72 sq. ft. for a triangular sail on the same boat; with its rig it weighs 78 lbs. v. a conventional sail's 25-30 lbs. Bedford hopes to reduce the weight, patent and market a still better sail within a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Aug. 27, 1956 | 8/27/1956 | See Source »

...nonconformist City Temple in 1917), Oxford-educated suffragette, onetime pacifist (she renounced pacifism as "negative" at the outbreak of World War II) who shocked American bluenoses by smoking cigarettes on a preaching tour in 1928, married (1944) the Rev. George W. H. Shaw after a 43-year, triangular love affair described in her book, A Threefold Cord; in London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 13, 1956 | 8/13/1956 | See Source »

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