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Thus, with a Cummingsesque jingle, Designer-Philosopher R. Buclcminster Fuller, 70, set out to explain to the Saturday Review all that he had learned during his years since birth. The magazine had the temerity to ask Bucky to keep it down to 5,000 words-a paralyzing limitation for a man who can talk on for hours about his "dymaxion" concepts, geodesic domes, and practically everything else in the universe. Still, he managed. "I have not learned how or why the universe contrived to implode and intellectually code the myriadly unique, chromosomically orchestrated DNA-RNA, quadripartite moleculed, binary-paired, helically...
...father or his father's father. He is more interested in the use of things to give him the good life than in the possession of perdurable objects that will reassure him. U.S. culture is based far more on achievement and productivity than on possessions. Says Buckminster Fuller: "Man used to feel secure when he owned things. Now he may feel insecure when he owns something like a house because it makes him feel encumbered...
...INTERRUPTED JOURNEY by John ;. Fuller. 301 pages. Dial...
...When the Fuller Brush Man rings once, look twice-he may well be a woman. After relying almost entirely on men for 60 years, Connecticut's Fuller Brush Co.-taking a tip from Avon Products-has hired 17,500 women this year, plans eventually to field 50,000, mostly part time. Throughout the country employers are turning more and more to women to fill jobs that they have never held before, or at least not since the World War II heyday of Rosie the Riveter...
Without doubt, in some cases, candidates who had friends in the Society had an advantage over those who did not, but only because those friends could inform the Society of candidates' academic and intgellectual activities that escaped the transcripts and faculty comments. The solution to this problem is fuller information on all candidates, not abdication to a mindless formula...