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...less structural material to cover more space than any other building ever devised. The diameter of the one built for the Union Tank Car Co. in Baton Rouge is the length of a football field. Next year the Union of South Africa expects to be using geodesic huts for low-cost housing. And within a decade it is quite possible, if Bucky has his way, that cities will roof their centers over with vast translucent domes, beneath which mass air conditioning and weatherproofing will enable houses and stores to be constructed only for privacy and aesthetic delight. Bucky has already...
There are plenty of other openings for products that are either being neglected, insufficiently developed or overpriced: low-cost color TV and air conditioners, cheap farm machinery and gasoline engines for new nations, and fresh ideas in urban mass transportation. General Electric Economist Nelson Foote believes that one of the nation's basic needs is to keep the suburbs growing because of the vast number of products that new homes can absorb. The trick, he thinks, is to develop a good, low-priced house, and to create job opportunities for working wives outside cities...
...Force when Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, Eastern's board chairman, and Laurance Rockefeller, the line's largest shareholder, tapped him in 1959 to run Eastern. He concentrated on the cabin instead of the cockpit. He introduced Eastern's famed no-reservation Air Shuttle service, pioneered low-cost Air-Bus travel and made ticketing procedures simpler...
Advancing in Africa. With two close aides who also had been cronies of Mattei-Eugenio Cefis, 42, and Raffaelo Girotti, 45-Boldrini has bargained to buy low-cost crude oil for Italy from both Russia and the U.S.'s Jersey Standard, thus pursuing Mattei's policy of playing off rivals and exploiting a buyers' market. Stretching out in Europe and Africa is the chain of gas stations run by E.N.I.'s sales arm called AGIP, whose symbol is not a dinosaur or a flying horse but a six-legged dog (it was a draftsman...
Harold C. Martin, Director of General Education Ahf and a member of the Advisory Committee for the project, said he considered it "a low-cost enterprise which might yield distinctive results in a short time." "The program is working on the hypothesis that with sufficient exposure, there will be a significant change," he said...