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...years R. (for Richard) Buckminster Fuller has been the gadfly, delight and despair of the technological world. Beginning with a design for a ten-story apartment house that he hoped would be dropped from a Zeppelin on the North Pole, he designed projects ranging from a house that was hung from a duralumin mast to bathrooms with no running water (only an air hose squirting 90% air, 10% water, no soap needed). Among his other Dymaxion ("dynamic" plus "maximum service") products have been a three-wheel, rear-engined automobile and a house that can be stowed away in an aluminum...
...figure to trenchermen of his day. No such adulation has fallen on the narrow Gallic shoulders of Oscar's successor, Claudius Charles Philippe, 47. Son of a French chef, London-born Philippe migrated to the U.S. in 1929, stirred soup in a variety of kitchen pots, even sold Fuller brushes for a spell before going to the Waldorf as Oscar's assistant...
...that no solid warrior need take seriously. Early in 1916 he had shown the kind of war he preferred to fight when at the Somme he lost 60,000 men on the first day of battle. In Flanders Haig bore out the assessment of British Military Historian General J.F.C. Fuller, himself a Flanders veteran: "He lived and worked like a clock; every day he did the same kind of thing at the same moment; his routine never varied. In character he was stubborn and intolerant, in speech inarticulate, in argument dumb...
...reserves were used up and he had no follow-through. Flanders was a sickening campaign, and Author Wolff's clear, cool account effectively re-creates its horror. Perhaps the last word falls to Haig's chief of staff. Lieut. General Sir Launcelot Kiggell, who, according to Historian Fuller's introduction, "meditated like a Buddhist bhikku: revolved the prayer wheel of his doctrines, and out of them concocted Napoleonic battles on paper, which on the ground turned out to be slaughterhouse dramas." Not until the end of the Flanders campaign did Kiggell visit the corpse-filled swamp where...
Stateroom & Sundaes. Other problems existed besides language. His entire wardrobe consisted of one jacket, one pair of slacks, one pair of shoes, two pairs of blue jeans. But by the St. Paul's catalogue, he needed a much fuller list of clothes, including winter boots and coats. Charles Stafford, a tavern owner from Laconia, N.H. visiting Morocco on a trade mission, met the boy, decided to help. He went home and raised $500 from his state's Rotary Clubs. Adeline Martin, a clerical worker at the Nouasseur air-base near Casablanca, sold the Volkswagen...