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...Spider, the only car in the world powered by the Wankel engine. Twelve companies in the U.S., Britain, France, Italy and Japan are now experimenting with the engine (which was developed in 1954 by Felix Wankel, a German engineer). The Wankel replaces conventional pistons and cylinders with a triangular rotor, has only two major moving parts and weighs much less than conventional engines. Other engineering trends showed off: a swing toward a combination of disk and drum brakes even in some of the lower-priced cars, reduction in the number of lubrication points, wider use of double carburetors to provide...
Kaleidoscope of Contrast. Shastri's India is less a nation than a notion, possessed of a fragile unity that barely transcends its geographical boundaries. Into a triangular wedge of the world only a third as big as the U.S., India packs 480 million people and more than 200 million cows. From the mirage-like ice peaks of the Himalayas, down the vast and sinuous Ganges and Brahmaputra rivers (which most Indians regard as holy), through the crammed chawls and boiling bustees of Bombay and Calcutta, to the humid tip of the subcontinent at Cape Comorin, India is a kaleidoscope...
Chagall learned some of the discipline of the cubists. But he resisted their dissection of form. "Let them eat their fill of their square peas on their triangular tables!" he wrote. Nevertheless, something of Cartesian logic crept into his fantasies; his pictures took on orderly geometry; his images lost traditional figure-ground relationships and, instead, flattened against the picture plane in search of purely visual values. Said Chagall: "For me, a painting is a surface covered with representations of things- objects, animals, human beings- in a certain order in which logic and illustration have no importance...
...will be closed and part of the land used. Harvard hopes, in its new building program. The University will in turn give up three slices of land, one in front of Littauer and the others on the Quincy St. and Cambridge St. Side of the triangular plot of land occupied by Memorial Hall. The total 11,500 sq. ft. involved will be used to widen Quincy and Cambridge Streets...
...instant panic in the local chamber of commerce, and 2) a sudden boom in swimming-pool sales. Sailors blaze away at passing sharks with rifles and shotguns, ichthyologists denounce them as witless garbage disposals, and many a fisherman disgustedly reels in his bait at the first glimpse of a triangular dorsal fin slicing the surface...