c/buckminster-fuller
Richard Buckminster Fuller was an American architect, systems theorist, writer, designer, inventor, philosopher, and futurist.
…level where I assume things, where man is dullest and the most, he calls himself, brutally practical. But we have Eisenhower and Khrushchev coming together in Switzerland in 1954, ten years ago. We have the first meeting of the heads of all the states of…
…he really had the bigger one, and shoot a little faster, and you always won. But suddenly, it was not so. When Khrushchev and Eisenhower came into top positions in the United States and Russia, respectively, their Joint Chiefs of Staff in the Kremlin and…
…Sokolniki Park in Moscow. Next picture. I'm standing in Sokolniki Park with the dome behind. Next picture, I think there's one of Khrushchev when they were dedicating this dome. When that dome was going up in St. Paul and Hickey Park, Khrushchev went over,…
…I think there's one of Khrushchev when they were dedicating this dome. When that dome was going up in St. Paul and Hickey Park, Khrushchev went over, he was a premier then, and he went over to watch it going up. He is in this picture. I'm sorry to…
…It's called Niki Park. I was invited by the government to go to Russia to represent engineering in the Protocol Exchange. This was before Khrushchev asked me to go, but at any rate, I was going anyway. So when I did get there, I was very warmly greeted…
…sure that they've never been mistaken for any altruism. They're going to lose. Now, we have them. This was a time of Khrushchev and Eisenhower coming into power that the joint chiefs of staff of all the great nations, power nations, realized that for the…
…first time in the history of man, they couldn't use the big gun. To use the big meant you'd lose. The meeting of Khrushchev and Eisenhower in Geneva to even discuss allowing their scientists to speak to one another across the Iron Curtain was to look…
…they had come to the conclusion, because you go back to Korea and you find it's before we really realized, this was before Khrushchev and Eisenhower, and it was before the Joint Chiefs of Staff had realized they couldn't use the big guns. It was only…