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...COURSE, as the show reminds us, Buck-minster Fuller did get his Plexiglas and steel dome built at Expo. For the Osaka fair Yutaka Murata plans a blow-up amphitheatre of pneumatic PVC tubes, shaped like a locus of horseshoes. Other inflatables pictured include a dome and a space-capsule-shaped weekend house...
Matarazzo also announced that he was ready to start building a new, ten-acre plant to make PVC (polyvinyl chloride), basis of such popular modern plastic products as raincoats, upholstering materials, wire insulation. To be built in partnership with B. F. Goodrich Co., the plant will be the first of its kind in South America. Typically, it is a natural outgrowth of another Matarazzo venture-a caustic-soda plant adjoining the site at São Caetano do Sul. "It is the Rolls-Royce of products," Count Matarazzo announced with finality...