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Students buy into the so-called pyramid game by paying $20 to the two people at the top and bottom of a list of twelve names. The new player then crosses off the top name, adds his own to the bottom of the list, and then sells a place on the list to two more students...
Polk said the pyramid chain is more successful than other types of chain letters since you must pay to enter the game. "You purchase the letter to get into the chain, so it's very difficult to break the chain unless you're willing to give up your initial investment," he added...
Several officials contacted last week said the pyramid game may be illegal...
...Fuller patented the geodesic dome, which used pyramid-shaped tetrahedrons to attain great strength without internal supports and to cover more space with less material than any other building ever designed. The first commercial sale was to the Ford Motor Co. Other geodesic domes housed DEW-line stations in the Arctic, a concert auditorium in Honolulu and the U.S. Pavilion at Expo '67 in Montreal...
Simultaneously, they built up, in Sloan's words, "a pyramid of persuasion" designed to monitor the state. The campaign first divided the state into four regions, and appointed coordinators for each. Each coordinator was assigned 10 Senate district and told to find whips for each district. The whips were supposed to find Glenn support...