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Last summer the Museum of Modern Art plugged a model of a Geodesic Dome into its landscape of Manhattan's West 53rd Street and drew as many as 2,000 spectators on a Sunday. This spring, the Ford Motor Co. will unveil a go-footer, made of such gossamer materials as aluminum spars, Orion fabric and Fiberglas, to enclose a large court in its Rotunda in Dearborn, Mich., as part of its soth anniversary celebration. This will bring this Fuller idea closer to practical use and success than most; it has hitherto been the fate of most of Bucky...
...Morgan was once asked by a friend: "How much does it cost to run a yacht?" Boomed the great J.P.: "Sir, if you have to know how much it costs, you shouldn't own one." Last week, as the 43rd annual Motor Boat Show opened in Manhattan's Grand Central Palace, it was evident that Morgan's rule of thumb no longer applied. In the biggest show in history, 248 exhibitors displayed boats for every pocketbook-from $39.95 for a shrimp boat to $72,700 for a cabin cruiser...
...view were 38 different models put out by seven kit-boatmakers, ranging all the way from 8-ft. prams to cabin cruisers. U-Mak-It Products, which had 15 models on show, also puts out a kit for a 23-ft. cabin cruiser (see cut} for $844 without motor, a saving of about $1,000 on the readymade model. Depending on the size, a home builder could slice as much as 60% from the price of a factory-made boat...
...Last three men leave for tavern. All seven men in tavern now. Truck unattended though motor is running, as it has been...
Spinning Passenger. It was this experience which inspired Willy to tack a motor on his rucksack parachute and turn it into a strap-on-the-back flying machine. It was not an entirely new idea. One devised by the Wehrmacht, for example, worked nicely, except that it spun the passenger almost as fast as it spun its rotors, depositing the dizzy victim on the ground in no fit condition to fight for der Führer. Willy devoted most of his postwar resources to exterminating such bugs: he sold his house and car, hocked his radio shop...