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There are three of these cleaning trucks that dutifully swep the one hundred and thirty-five miles of Cambridge street. They are triangular, orange colored machines costing about eight thousand dollars each, with a single rear wheel for steering. Two large steel brushes whirling on the sides root the dirt out of the gutter while a large rear brush flips in into a conveyor belt that carries the mess into a big hopper. The trucks look pretty ungainly and make plenty of noise, but actually they are quite graceful. The secret is in the rear wheel steering that allows them...
...supersonic, delta-wing aircraft in production. It is the F-102 interceptor, made by Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp. Its engine is a Pratt & Whitney J57 turbojet. The F-102 has a vertical fin with a conventional rudder, but it has no horizontal tail surfaces. The trailing edges of the triangular wings carry "elevens" that do double service as ailerons and "flippers" (elevator controls...
...circle to try his luck again. Spinning twice to gain momentum, he made a mighty heave of 64 ft. 4 3/4 in. The lead ball was the proper weight this time, but Backus was again doomed to disappointment: one of the chain links that joined the ball to the triangular-shaped handle had spread, and the overall length of the chain was 3/16 of an inch longer than the 16-inch length required by the rules...
Whether the new building remedied this problem has since been debated, but the fund-raising campaign, boosted by William Randolph Hearst, was a cheering success. Soon a triangular lot bounded by Plympton, Bow, and Mt. Auburn Streets was purchased, and architect Edmund Wheelwright, one of the Lampoon founders, was commissioned to design the building...
...tower, is divided into the Nest, workroom for artists; the tower room, furnished chiefly with a moth-eaten Ibis; and the Great Hall. This last is the most impressive, reserved for Lampy's state occasions. At first glance, it seems extremely large because of a foreshortened perspective and triangular shape. The Hall's main features include a large, carved mantelpiece of Elizabethan vintage, serpentine electric light brackets, and suits of Japanese armor. A solid oak table stands in the center, and is deeply carved with the initials of early members who had heard that the editors of Punch possessed...