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...through almost any part that is put in front of him. These are assets valuable in any musician, but the Harvard undergraduate often commits the grave error of depending on his native intelligence and talent to get him by, rather than using them as a tool for achieving a fuller understanding and more meaningful performance of the music. The typical musician performs in as many events as he can, leaving himself little or no time to practice...
...Buckminster Fuller, the whiz engineer and architect who plans to change the world. His geodesic dome is the U.S. pavillion at Expo 67. Fuller was one of those seniors who had enlisted before Commencement in the Navy, where he served until 1919. One classmate described Fuller's mind as an "intellectual carnival." Fuller's own account of his life is less pedantic; "Born crosseyed. Abnormally farsighted. Corrected at four. Until then saw only large patterrns. Emphasis persisted after correction. Started young documenting against world developments, formalized as Chronofile 1917. Chronofile disclosed Newton's era world at rest supersded by Einstein...
...story geode sic dome looms like a rising sun over the 1,000-acre site on the St. Lawrence; the heavily traveled minirail zips right through it, and every day an aver age of 5,000 people an hour line up to get in. Unquestionably, Architect Buckminster Fuller's bubble is a huge success; but the high-camp, soft-sell show inside is quite another matter. For in choosing to combine levity with patriotism, the designers of the U.S. exhibit have let themselves in for a scorching controversy in which comments range from soaring praise ("a masterpiece of pleasing...
CAMBRIDGE, June 1--Informed sources far from the administration have released their annual list of honorary degree recipients. For the year 1967, they are: Harry S Truman, ex-President; Leonard Bernstein '39, author of the Quincy House play; John U. Monro '34, retiring Dean of Harvard College; Buck minister Fuller '17, geodesic-dome builder; Bernard Malamud, Pulitzer-Prize-winning lecturer in General Education; Barbara Tuchman, historian; John H. Finley Jr. '25, Master of Eliot House and Eliot Professor of Greek Literature...
...beat NBC into a big raise after the recent AFTRA strike. Previously, he was getting about $15,000 for doing five times a week what Dean Martin does once for $40,000, and he was paying his own staff, to boot. Johnny's new contract gives him fuller control of the show. NBC now pays the extras and gave Carson a raise to about $20,000 a week, bringing his annual TV income to more than...