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...Most ferocious are the Chavantes, a tribe of husky, dark men who hold a fertile area directly in the path of projected settlement. They are marvelous shots with arrows, but - for reasons believed to be connected with their religion - they prefer to mash the heads of palefaces with heavy, triangular clubs. Airplanes apparently have no religious significance. When an airplane recently flew over a Chavante village, the Indians neatly riddled it with arrows...
Before Budapest's fate was sealed, the month and a half battle for it had also become the battle for the Kisalföld, the triangular "Little Plain" of western Hungary, with Vienna, in Austria, as its apex. By this week the Russians had won a series of battles for the Kisalföld's approaches, stood upon it on both sides of the Danube. Vienna, the inner gate to Germany's back door, was now the German worry...
...this week the northern flank appeared to have been stabilized, at least temporarily. Heavy battles raged for the wedges the Americans had been able to hold in the Monschau-Malmédy-Stavelot area and to the west of Saint-Vith. But they were perilous triangular salients. Lieut. General Courtney H. Hodges' First Army had apparently stopped the spearhead closest to Liège, focal point of U.S. supplies...
...flag of its conqueror. Before the conquering Japs came in 1895, Formosa flew the triangular Imperial flag of China's Ching Dynasty - a blue dragon on a yellow background...
Battling a tricky cross-wind and choppy waters, three Harvard crews bowed to experienced M.I.T. and Cornell eights Saturday afternoon on the Henley Course in the first formal triangular regatta since the war started. Both M.I.T. and Cornell had formal spring racing seasons, and Cornell, the added advantage of frequent practice in rough water. "We just met better crews, that's all," remarked Coach Bert Haines after the contest...