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Disturbed last month by the specter of an oil refinery proposed for Searsport, Me., not far from his beloved summer home on Bear Island, Buckminster Fuller, 75, fired off a protesting telegram to Maine Senator Edmund S. Muskie. The basic message could have been put in 21 words: URGE YOU BLOCK THIS AND ALL OTHER REFINERY PROJECTS ON MAINE'S COAST. ALTERNATE ENERGY SOURCES ARE AVAILABLE. CALL ME FOR DETAILS. But Bucky Fuller-author, architect, inventor, philosopher -operates on a grand scale. He turned to free verse, and the orotund result almost filled the entire Op-Ed page...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The Poetics of Pollution | 4/26/1971 | See Source »

...vestige of dissent was ruthlessly rooted out. But the present regime has chosen to invoke only selective terror against its critics. Some have been jailed or incarcerated in mental institutions. But others who continue to speak out or sign petitions remain free. Last week, for example, Sakharov sent a telegram to the Soviet Minister of the Interior in protest against the handling of two Soviet dissenters who are being subjected to drug treatment in a Soviet mental hospital to "cure"' them of their political abnormalities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: The Soviet Union: The Risks of Reform | 3/29/1971 | See Source »

...Scott received his second nomination for an Academy Award as Best Supporting Actor for The Hustler. He sent a wire to the Academy and quietly declined. He still remains unimpressed by Oscars. Nominated once again, as Best Actor for his part in Patton, Scott once again dispatched a telegram...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Meat Parade | 3/8/1971 | See Source »

Ngueyen Thi Binh, chief negotiator for the Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam, sent a telegram to the conference today charging that a massive invasion of Laos by U.S., South Vietnamese, and Thai ground troops was in progress and urging the group to mobilize the antiwar movement in protest...

Author: By (special TO The crimson), | Title: Conference in Ann Arbor Calls Protests this Week | 2/8/1971 | See Source »

...could win it all-even the newly revamped Redskins. That at least was the belief of one rabid Washington fan. After sending a new budget to Congress last week with predictions of a strong economic gain, Richard Nixon sent another prediction to Coach Allen. Read the President's telegram: "Great trade. I am betting on the Skins for the championship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Battle for the Bodies | 2/8/1971 | See Source »

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