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...year and a half ago public-spirited Physician Capito put a proposition to Conductor-Composer Antonio Modarelli of the 85-piece Charleston Symphony Orchestra: Capito would pay $1,000 for the kind of composition he had in mind. Modarelli agreed. Last week, along with West Virginia Governor Okey Patteson and the biggest Charleston symphony audience in history (2,500), Capito heard the result: a six-section program piece entitled River Saga...
When Richard Buckminster Fuller's name is mentioned, most architects chuckle indulgently; a few reverently bow their heads. Sparkling "Bucky" Fuller, a rotund little man who looks more businesslike than he is, long ago startled the U.S. with designs for three-wheeled, tear-shaped cars and pear-shaped "Dymaxion" houses hung from metal masts, but he never succeeded in convincing investors that his ideas were adaptable to mass production - the only kind that interests him. At 54, Bucky confesses without a smile that his one purpose is still to house "the 800 million people now alive who will...
...Bucky three years ago incorporated himself as the nonprofit (and taxexempt) Fuller Research Foundation. Businessmen may sneer at Bucky, but artists are more sympathetic. Last week 91 Chicago artists (most of them young abstractionists) contributed their paintings, sculptures and photographs to a Chicago art auction that raised $700 for Bucky...
...city's nearest neighbors, a handful of primitive tribesmen, know almost nothing about it and avoid it in superstitious fear. They call it Peshawarun, and believe it was abandoned centuries ago when invaders cut the irrigation ditches bringing water from the mountains. The inhabitants fled 700 miles northeast, locals claim, to found the city of Peshawar...
...this round-the-world ocean, Urey thinks, life evolved a billion and a half years ago. There is no record of these ancient creatures because they were all "pelagic," living at or near the surface of the water. They did not develop heavy, easily preserved shells or skeletons because there was no land or shallow bottom for non-floating forms to live...