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...fired off a protesting telegram to Maine Senator Edmund S. Muskie. The basic message could have been put in 21 words: URGE YOU BLOCK THIS AND ALL OTHER REFINERY PROJECTS ON MAINE'S COAST. ALTERNATE ENERGY SOURCES ARE AVAILABLE. CALL ME FOR DETAILS. But Bucky Fuller-author, architect, inventor, philosopher -operates on a grand scale. He turned to free verse, and the orotund result almost filled the entire Op-Ed page of the New York Times...
...committee, which includes such prominent Americans as Dr. Edward Teller, inventor of the hydrogen bomb, and Clare Boothe Luce, widow of the publishing magnate, is convinced that Cuba was a launching pad for the student insurrections and black rebellions which plagued the U. S. during...
Died. Sherman Mills Fairchild, 74, inventor and industrialist; in Manhattan. A college dropout (Harvard, University of Arizona, Columbia), Fairchild turned a knack for tinkering into an aviation and photographic empire. While at Harvard he invented a primitive flash camera; by 1918 he had developed one of the first between-the-lens shutters for aerial cameras. The need for an aircraft to use his cameras for aerial mapping led him into plane building, and in 1926 the fledgling Fairchild Aviation Corp. introduced the first enclosed-cabin monoplane. During World War II, Fairchild turned out thousands of PT-19 trainers and developed...
FROM the early days of the Republic, when Thomas Jefferson backed Inventor Eli Whitney's design for mass-produced muskets with interchangeable parts, public support for technological progress has been an American tradition. Out of this tradition has grown an obsession with speed, a consequence of the nation's great distances and the rush to cover them quickly, producing what Historian Daniel J. Boorstin calls "a technology of haste" that dates back to the pioneering steamboats of nearly two centuries ago. Add to those themes the national desire to win, to be first. A natural consequence...
Died. Rube Goldberg, 87, the most imaginative inventor since Leonardo (see THE PRESS...