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...strike Mumford's fancy. Just as the Egyptians erected vast sterile pyramids at great cost, so did the industrial age begin to mass-produce valueless goods. A far-fetched analogy? Mumford finds pyramids lurking everywhere in modern life. He includes an illustration of a supercity proposed by Buckminster Fuller that looks like a pyramid but lacks any perceptible improvement in living conditions. Even the manned space capsule "corresponds exactly to the innermost chamber of the great pyramids, where the mummified body of the Pharaoh, surrounded by the miniaturized equipment necessary for magical travel to heaven, was placed...
...Buckminister Fuller, technological visionary of "Spaceship Earth," spoke to a capacity crowd in the grand ballroom of the Boston Sheraton hotel yesterday evening...
...only thing I know that is significant about myself is that, as far as I know, I am an average man," Fuller said, and went on to explain his view that every man has the potential to discover "the principles operative within the universe and to use them to enable the world to provide for all of its inhabitants...
...Soviet Union creates a natural suspense of great force. Making Mary the wife of a bland squirt who also lives at the boardinghouse ensures a tasty intrigue. And finally, having Ganin realize that Mary and Russia can never be repossessed except by memory, establishes a motif that certainly warrants fuller development in any other novels you may be planning to write. Next time, however, please try to get the book to us sooner...
...Running was my whole life for a long time," he explained, Pottetti found it difficult to get close to others. In the last half year, however, he has made more of an effort and has found great enrichment. "My life is so much fuller now," he added. "I've met so many great people...