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...call the Harvard-Cornell game a hemarrhoid more than anything else. Being subjected to Ithaca for just 30 seconds is even more painful than the snicker-provoking affliction that attacks from behind. Ithaca, along with Binhamton and Buffalo, defines the triangular wasteland of Western New York that could well be overrun by the Erie Waste Canal and never be missed...

Author: By Mark D. Director, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Long Day's Journey Into Ithaca: Meeting the Big Red Machine | 10/13/1979 | See Source »

...Part 3: A momentous decision "to risk war in the triangular Soviet-Chinese-American relationship"-on Peking's side. -A near showdown with Moscow over a Soviet-backed invasion of Jordan by Syrian troops and tanks. -Tips on the statesman's craft ("The old adage that men grow in office has not proved true in my experience"). -An unsentimental philosophy of foreign policy: "One reason the Viet Nam debate grew so bitter was that both supporters and critics of the original involvement shared the same traditional sense of universal moral mission...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: WHITE HOUSE YEARS: PART 2 THE AGONY OF VIETNAM | 10/8/1979 | See Source »

...ground and inserts the bird into a large rural mailbox on the platform. Then he seizes a plumber's helper and, like an artilleryman ram-rodding home a shell, nudges the chicken's tail feathers and plunges it into flight. Beneath the launching platform is a triangular corral, several hundred feet long, fashioned with snow fences. In it waits a squad of small boys cradling large fish nets. As each chicken takes flight squawking in protest and spraying feathers, a boy dashes along its trajectory to net the flyer at its point of touchdown with the skill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Ohio: A Fowl Spectacle | 7/2/1979 | See Source »

...disappointed Harvard wrestling team returned to Cambridge Sunday night with a 4-10 record after losses to Springfield, Yale and Connecticut and a win over Brown in triangular meets held in Connecticut this weekend...

Author: By Michelle D. Healy, | Title: Grapplers Get Dumped Thrice In Season's Longest Weekend | 2/13/1979 | See Source »

...back to Japan, does that not tip the triangular balance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: An Interview with Teng Hsiao-p'ing | 2/5/1979 | See Source »

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