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...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 container. None of them ever went into mass production. Bucky got a reputation...
...Lincoln with deficiencies in arithmetic and spelling, but with an urge to learn more about people. He decided Princeton, Yale and Harvard were undemocratic, bypassed them to attend smaller Dartmouth. At Hanover he directed a stirring attack on the fraternity system but eventually joined Psi Upsilon, wielded a fire hose and earned a black eye during a battle between his sophomore class and freshmen, ran and lost for president of the junior class. In the Rockefeller tradition he also taught Sunday school, abstained from smoking and the traditional applejack parties in White River Junction and made Phi Beta Kappa...
...Hose Sorry Now? In Wells Ford, New Zealand, city officials discovered that a new, $160,000 fire station .had complete modern plumbing, no water supply...
...bargain basement. Filene's professional buyers picked up Paris dresses at a song in 1940 just before the Germans marched in, emptied out the seagoing haberdashery aboard the Queen Mary when it was converted to a wartime troopship. Filene's customers got these bargains-plus hip-length hose from the Folies-Bergère and smoke-damaged goods from Dallas' Neiman-Marcus-at cut-rate prices that are automatically trimmed 25% after twelve selling days, 50% after 18, 75% after 24. If unsold after a month, the goods are given to charity...
...Taze Russell, a small, intense-looking Pittsburgh merchant who joined the Congregational Church but disliked thinking of hell as fiery and eternal. "Would you hold a puppy dog's tail in the fire three minutes?" he asked. Neither would a just God, was his argument. To "turn the hose on hell," Russell went back to the Bible and found the words: "And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake" (Daniel...