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...applying these to "livingry" rather than "weaponry." Perhaps his greatest contribution in this respect has been his work with the tetrahedron, a four-faced pyramid which Fuller has discovered to be the most resistant of all polyhedra to external pressure. By combining many tetrahedra into a spherical shape (the sphere can withstand the greatest internal pressures), Fuller constructed his geodesic dome, an extremely light and economical structure of extraordinary strength...
...international sphere, the advertisement contended, the Committee "creates doubt among the peoples of the world who look to us for a living example of the values of freedom...
Toward the close of the second Godkin lecture it became apparent where Rockefeller's discussion of the federal idea was to lead. "All free peoples," he said, need "to devise new formulas of unity." It is to the international sphere that he intends today to apply his concept of federalism
Judging from the poetic language of the pamphlet, one might even surmise that the explosion is quite beautiful. Immediately following the detonation, a fireball forms--a "large, swiftly expanding sphere of hot gases, producing brilliant light and intense heat...." Something like a display of aurora borealis...
...what remained of the UN idea, Hoffmann says in the New Republic article, "Hammarskjold tried to make...an impartial force whose mission it was to keep new conflicts outside the sphere of great power disputes, and to protcet in particular the weak against the strong" (his italics). Yet Hoffmann fears that the new nations have sought to fashion of the UN "an instrument of anti-colonialism pure and simple...