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...could conk out any minute," says 77-year-old Thinker R. Buckminster Fuller, "and there are a number of people who would like to see this work carried on." To carry on Fuller's work of formulating fresh and sometimes dazzling solutions to the problems of Man on Earth, a nonprofit Design Science Institute has just been set up in Washington, D.C. It will be headed by Dr. Glenn A. Olds, president of Kent State University, with an advisory council including such notables as Polio Fighter Jonas E. Salk, and former U.N. Secretary-General U Thant...
...hour Havasu marathon. Topping 100 m.p.h. on the straightaway and jouncing through treacherous wakes, the streamlined craft are, as Driver Bill Muncey says, "delicate mechanisms that run on the ragged edge of blowing up every minute." Indeed, by the halfway mark in last week's race, crackups and conk-outs claimed 26 of the 94 starters...
...passenger jet bounces us gently in its wake and I shudder. We gas up; off to the southwest we see storm clouds and lightning. Never mind: we're off again. For a moment, I think of those scary instructions picked up back in New York: if both pilots conk out aloft, set the radio dials at 121.5 and ask whoever answers how to land a plane. But then we are past the storm, and 80 minutes later the lights of Los Angeles twinkle into view. After nine days, $60, and only one would-be masher, I've made...
...York will probably have a typhoon next week," and it goes on to say, "Typhoons hardly ever happen north of Pago Pago, but the way your luck has been running it wouldn't surprise us if it happened to youknowwho. First your water dries up. Your lights conk out. No newspapers, no subways. So why not a tropical storm? Or maybe your sewer system will back up and you'll be riding to work on alligators. We don't have any black outs or water shortages or subway strikes. Matter of fact, our commuter trains are seldom...
Within the month, we must petition for another referendum to divide those two governments in two again. And when we have four student governments, we must petition and vote for eight. ("Divide and conk her," as one auto mechanic said to the other.) For in numbers there is strength...