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...bring the broken pieces of bone together, using a fluoroscope to see what he is doing. Then, through a one-inch incision in the hip over the end of the bone, he rams a guide wire down through the bone's marrow canal. He slips the hollow, stainless-steel nail over the wire, hammers it in the full length of the bone, pulls out the wire and sews up the incision...
...thinking of organizing a committee of ex-enlisted men to furnish the good lieutenant with any paraphernalia he may need, such as: a good lance, stainless steel armor and a white horse...
Those who remembered Designer Buckminster Fuller's "Dymaxion-Dwelling Machine" of 19 years ago could see basic similarities in his latest product. A 36-foot round aluminum shell was suspended on a central stainless steel mast, firmly anchored and capped by a rudderlike ventilator, which turns with the wind. Inside, the house was unexpectedly spacious: two bedrooms,, two baths, a large living room with fireplace, kitchen and some built-in furniture. A heating and air-conditioning unit, operated by either gas or electricity, was neatly stowed away in the innards, along with most of the plumbing. (Bucky Fuller...
Stenia was 23, but she had lived a lifetime of terror. She was a left-winger, a militiawoman, a veteran of the resistance and of Gestapo torture. The Nazis had knocked out two of her front teeth; now, when she smiled, she showed shiny, stainless-steel replacements...
...chiefly of new materials and on a truly mass-production basis is one prefabricated in the ever-fertile imagination of R. Buckminster ("Dymaxion") Fuller (TIME, Oct. 11, 1943). With an eye to production by planemakers, the dreamhouse consists of an aluminum and plastic circular shell supported by a central stainless-steel shaft, instead of a conventional foundation. Newly formed Fuller Houses, Inc. (former name: Dymaxion Dwelling Machines, Inc.) hopes to license upwards of 70 manufacturers to produce 185,000 units a year. But the only licensee to date is Wichita's Beech Aircraft Corp. It has produced only...