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...this is a team without much to brag about. Its only authentic star is free safety Grady Fuller, a Division I-AA All American last year and a strong threat to nab a couple of passes if the Crimson takes to the air often...
This is no dusty, scholarly discipline but the restorative obsession of passionate musicians. "When I heard Hogwood's cassette of Mozart's 'Jupiter' Symphony on original instruments the other day," says Albert Fuller, an enthusiastic participant in the movement, "it made me feel hot inside-drop-dead, roll-around, fall-over, lava hot." The sense of excitement is immediate and infectious, and the original-instruments movement is now beginning to have an effect on the way standard repertory is performed. "On instruments, one hears the composers almost for the first time," says John Eliot Gardiner...
DIED. Anne Hewlett Fuller, 87, widow of Futurist Inventor R. Buckminster Fuller, who suffered a fatal heart attack while visiting his comatose wife's bedside; after an intestinal operation; in Los Angeles. Although she did not learn of his death, Mrs. Fuller died 36 hours after her husband. They were buried together last week in Cambridge, Mass...
...Fuller patented the geodesic dome, which used pyramid-shaped tetrahedrons to attain great strength without internal supports and to cover more space with less material than any other building ever designed. The first commercial sale was to the Ford Motor Co. Other geodesic domes housed DEW-line stations in the Arctic, a concert auditorium in Honolulu and the U.S. Pavilion at Expo '67 in Montreal...
...Most of Fuller's inventions, though influential, did not make him money. But his tireless preaching in favor of "synergetic" methods of seeking solutions to mankind's problems brought him a wide following. During the last two decades of his life he became a favorite of the hippies of the 1960s, the environmentalists of the 1970s and all who chose to believe with him that "we're at the point where humanity has the option to make...