Word: domes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Watergate drama shifts this week to the marble-pillared, chandelier-lit Senate Caucus Room, scene of the Teapot Dome investigation and the Army-McCarthy hearings. Such is the demand for seats that for the first time in Senate history tickets are being issued for the 200 public places...
Some people have compared Watergate to the Teapot Dome scandal. However damaging the comparison is meant to be, there is a marked difference. Mr. Handing did weakly condone corruption, but without benefit to himself. Besides, this same pillaging of public lands and forests goes on at this very moment, without a ripple at headquarters. In contrast, Mr. Nixon stood personally to gain by the theft of Democratic campaign material, as well as by other felonious actions intended to disrupt the Democratic ranks. The circumstantial evidence of his involvement, whether as author, patron, or accessory, is almost airtight; his innocence becomes...
...paying fans who came out to the Idaho State University "Mini-dome" in Pocatello recently for the I.T.A.'s single dress-rehearsal meet saw more than amateur theatrics. The abbreviated twelve-event format was, as the promoters put it, "sequentially choreographed," eliminating the usual clutter caused when two or three events are staged simultaneously. When Pole Vaulter Bob Seagren bounded his way to an easy victory over three opponents by reaching 17 ft. 6 in., the audience was not distracted by competition in the mile run. Another I.T.A. innovation was pacer lights; spaced every ten yards along the track...
...want to get in touch with R. Buckminster Fuller-to invite him to accept yet another honorary degree, or to complain of a leak in your geodesic dome-what you do is cable "BUCKY," Carbondale, Ill. Trouble is, he is not likely to be there. With the exception of astronauts and veteran airline pilots, Fuller is one of the most traveled men in human history. There are well over 3,000,000 miles in his wake, and a schedule of worldwide lectures and consultations so crowded that he wears three watches. One runs on Carbondale time, where at the University...
...problem is that the Fuller package will not fit into any standard box. The geodesic dome is a marvel of simplicity and strength, but few engineers will admit that its creator is an engineer. Mathematicians are chilly, though many admire his geometry. Fuller's poetry, the hyperventilated phrasing of his ideas in a form that is supposed to facilitate understanding, frequently lapses into technological jargon. That fact did not seem to bother the Harvard selection committee that awarded Fuller the 1961-62 Charles Eliot Norton Professorship, a chair once occupied by T.S. Eliot. In trying to convey and assess...