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...manufacturers of Koro-Flex diaphragms have recalled the diaphragms they manufactured between June and September of 1976 because the diaphragms produced in these lots are tearing at the juncture of the rim and dome...
...years the state has elected Senators named Javits and Buckley and Kennedy and Moynihan; for years it has rejected two men named Abe Hirschfeld and Paul O'Dwyer. Yet neither has thrown in his cards. Hirschfeld, a millionaire garage contractor, has already spend enough money to buy the Capitol dome in his biennial attempts to win a seat of his own. And O'Dwyer, a die-hard politico, has maneuvered his way through an entire dormitory of strange bedfellows in his continuing pursuit of a free ticket to Washington. Of course, neither ever succeeds, but neither do they ever admit...
Another problem: mortgage financing has been hard to get for domes. However, most builders today agree that loans are usually available for professionally built models; some bankers cite the energy savings as an important plus. The few contractor-built domes that have been resold have brought high prices. The manufacturers claim that dome builders have no trouble getting building permits. Ironically, say the Cathedralite owners, the only city where their earthquake-resistant dwellings have run afoul of local building and safety requirements is Los Angeles...
...contrast to the mid-'60s, when most dome homes were funky, patched-up symbols of the counterculture, the average buyer is relatively well-to-do and well educated. Says Geodesic Structures' Peter Tobia: "The people we're getting today are the presold market that knows about Bucky Fuller. We're building a basically middle, upper-middle-class American housing unit that is a natural and intelligent alternative to expensive and inefficient housing...
Trees and Clouds. All of which, to round-homers, is like discussing Chartres in terms of beam load. They speak lyrically of the feeling of spaciousness, of an almost mystical airiness induced by living under a skylight. A Los Angeles dome-ophile, sounding like Gerard Manley Hopkins, talks of skylights filled with "towering trees and billowing clouds dashed with birds in flight." Ken Niboli, a California real estate broker who lives and works in separate domes, puts the case even more compellingly. "I feel," he says, "like I'm always on vacation...