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They have been likened to bubble gum beehives, musculatured mushrooms, humanoid terrariums, lunar campsites, shingled igloos and plastic puffballs. By whatever designation, but for every good reason, the geodesic dome home is finally winning acceptance and approbation...
However, noted philosopher, designer, inventor, father of the geodesic dome, and author of Spaceship Earth and other books, Buckminster Fuller, will lecture on Friday, Feb. 11 which, believe it or not, is Bucky Fuller Day in Boston, at 7:30, at B.U.'s Morse Auditorium, 602 Commonwealth Avenue, in Boston. Mayors Kevin White and A1 Velucci will present the Milton, Mass. native with a grand proclamation on the occasion of his 50th anniversary. 50th anniversary of what, you ask? Back in 1927 at age 18, Fuller declared his intellectual independence from the rest of organized society and proclaimed himself...
...McGee and Harrington thought they were having problems with the likes of State Reps. Mel B. King and Barney Frank '62, they have no idea what Saundra Graham could mean for the climate under the golden dome...
...events which were to lead to the biggest scandal in the post-war history of Japan; his own dismissal along with that of Daniel Haughton, chairman of the board of Lockheed; and the most profound reconsideration in the United States of corporate morality, power and influence since the Teapot Dome scandal of the early 1920's. But the Lockheed affair, as it unfolded on a worldwide stage, is more than a corporate immorality play. It is a disturbing illustration of the extent to which basic assumptions about the American economy and international politics have become outmoded...
...only appropriate, then, that Old Glory last week was finally elevated to its rightful position by another symbol of Dixie's resistance. With no fanfare, Governor George Wallace ordered the Stars and Stripes placed atop the capitol dome flagpole, with the Alabama banner beneath it and the Confederate standard in the lowest position. The action, said State Archivist Milo Howard, was "a gesture of friendliness to 25% to 30% of our population...