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Theater 5.6C Deaths 8C Want Ads 8-14C Comics 15C TV-Radio 4C eople SECTION ROCHESTLH M. mOAY. 23. 1372 NOW People Institute Examines 'Modern Don Quixote Ultimatum By Fisher: Up Ante Hobby Fitfhrr has made a last-minute demand (or more money to play in the world chess championship against Russian BorU Spassky, informed sources said yesterday in Reykjavik, Iceland. They reported that the American challenger has sent an ultimatum to the Iceland Chess Federation "two or three days ago," saying he would not show up unless he got 30 per cent of the gate receipts on top of the unprecedented sums already guaranteed.

Fischer canceled scheduled flights to Reykjavik Tuesday and Wednesday. This had led to simulation that he was waging a war of nerves with titlehokler The 24 game match is due to start on Sunday. 17. I r- fw The proponent of geodesic dome and windmills From I TI. By BETTY FLVNN' DiC Chicago Daily New I NEW YORK They described him as an "engineer saint," "the archetypal optimist" and a "modern Leonardo Da Vinci," but a 20th century Don Quixote might have been a better label.

For R. Buckminster Fuller, the proponent of energy conservation, the geodesic dome and windmill power, among other things, has put forth ideas for almost half a century that many call idealistic, altruistic and outlandish. Fuller himself a short, slightly hunched over man with a well-trimmed white crewcut, black hornrim glasses and hearing aids in both ears was present yesterday for the announcement of the formation of the Design Science Institute. Its purpose is to "implement and accent the practical and intellectual spinoff" from Fuller's wide-ranging ideas on how to improve mankind and life on what he has called "spaceship earth." Fuller, who will be 77 July 12, is a professor at Southern Illinois University at Edwards-ville. He predicted that the human community's standard of living could be "significantly improved" by 1985 if his ideas are put into practice.

The geodesic dome is perhaps his most famous concept, a light, airy many-sided living structure in a dome shape that he visualized 19 years ago. There are now about 50,000 of them throughout the world. "It requires only 3 per cent of the weight and material necessary for structures covering similar space, so that it represents 30 buildings for one," he noted. The waterless toilet is another Fuller concept. "What do we need with all this wet plumbing, with 50 volumes of precious rainwater that has come down the mountains to wash Dorelli to Tie Knot Two more happily unmarrieds have decided to tie the knot.

Actress Catherine Spaak and singer Johnny Dorelli, vacationing with their 11-i month-old son, announced they'll wed this sum- mer Marlene Dietrich, holidaying in Europe, will return here this fall for another of her one-woman show tours Salvador' Dali's career is taking a new twist. He'll appear in a film for underground producer Andy Warhol. From I Daily News. away one volume of human waste?" he asked. AH on'v 15 per rent of fuels like coal and gas and oil arc used in tht-ir consumption, a rorslderab'e drain on the "energy income" of humanity, he added.

Fuller would like to see te nroliferation of the little-used windmill much improved by so phisticated aeronautic technique with a goal of one windmill per family, to produce all the energy one household would need for survival. The new foundation, to be located in Washington, D.C.. will open Wednesday, according to Herman Wolf, its executive vice president and a former public relations man from Fairfield, Conn. Wolf sait the will bein o'vrfit'ons on a "shoestring basis," financially speaking, but hows its tax-exempt status will encourage contributions from private citizens as well as other foundation and government sources. Fuller rejected the idea that the institute would be a sort of "super public relations agency" for his ideas and philosophies, but nothing more in terms of practical proposals.

Nevertheless the institute's initial activities center on the collection and dissemination of those ideas. Fuller said plans for his creation of "world game" an electronic computerized facility Please turn pa(je Sir Francis Chichester rv- 1 ft R. Buckminster Ful'er looks at world through "tensegrity" model. his tensegrity theory is based on principles similar to those in geodesic designs. Jane Fonda Always Involved Washington Post WASHINGTON No, Jane Fonda isn't actively engaged with the women's political caucus.

No, she won't be campaigning actively for Sen. McGovern, although she supports him passively "Sure I think people should vote for McGovern if it's between him and Nixon. McGovern's been straight on the war issue. I don't think he's prepared to change things socially, to make fundamental changes, but he's been consistent on the war. Let's put it this way: I think he'd wage wars with a heavy heart." Yes, maybe she'll turn up in Miami for the conventions: she hasn't decided.

"I'm not doing anything now except trying to end the war," she replies when pressed about her current political activities. It's a characteristically ingenuous reply, for opposing the war in Vietnam has obviously become a full-time preoccupation, influencing and impinging upon her "professional" career. Mariner in Trouble Britain's lone round-the-world mariner, Sir Francis Chichester, who has been competing in the Transatlantic single-handed yacht race, was reported in London last night to be in trouble as he sailed Gypsy Moth back toward home. "I am weak and cold," the sailing 70-year-old Cluchester signaled by lamp to a British Royal Air Force Nimrod search aircraft. Chichester flashed his message twice to the aircraft, which has been tracking his progress since he was first sighted Tuesday after not being heard from for 11 days.

Chichester, who defied doctors' orders to tackle the marathon ocean crossing, has dropped out of the race. He is believed to be heading for the French coast. From AP. How Good Samaritan Act Groucho Displeased -aoe-v savea i nera 5g ficnic 9 For example, Jane Fonda hasn't been on a film publicity tour in years, but she's on one now to promote "F.T.A.," a documentary derived from the antiwar satirical revue she and several other entertainers took to the vicinity of army installations in the Pacific a year ago. The show was not allowed on bases, but it played 21 performances in coffeehouses or makeshift amphitheaters in various camp towns in Hawaii, the Phillipines, Japan and Okinawa.

The film was acquired for national distribution by Amcrian International. Among the members of the "F.T.A." troupe (the initials, bowdlerized, stand for "free the the unbowdlerized interpretation should be self-evident) was Len Chandler, the black folk singer and composer, who's accompanying Fonda on the tour. A slight, balding, soft-spoken man, he projects a calm, mellow sort of personality that seems to provide a helpful brake and contrast to Fonda's rather breathless, excitable presence. There's no doubt about the force of her personality or the sincerity of her expression; she speaks rapidly and fervently, and that fervor is enormously exciting and attractive. When Fonda is talking, the atmosphere in the room be- it If A Bill VllrX' Beeney Jane Fonda during antiwar fast in Denver.

(AP) Groucho Marx will bring his one-man talk show to Los Angeles on Sept. 24, after tryouts in San Diego and San Francisco. The Grouch, who is curt on the telephone, is reportedly displeased with Esquire's current cover story on him. It was written by the Chicago Sun-Times' critic Koger Ebert, who also penned his first screenplay for Fox with the disastrous "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls." Perhaps Groucho will be happier with "Son of Groucho," the biography of him which is due in October from McKay. That one's written by Groucho's son, playwright Arthur Marx Impossible Lucille Ball has her writers concoting a segment of Here's Lucy especially for her son, Desi Arnaz and his constant companion, Liza Minnelli.

Desi not Mama Lucy, recently announced that he and Liza will marry in the fall. Meanwhile, they're in Japan, where Desi is making a picture and Liza's daddy, Vin-cente Minnelli leaves this week to join them. From Joyce Haber. One thing you can say about Kenneth P. Courtney, former president of the Monroe County Legislature, is that he has faith and charity.

Another thing you can say is that he is "chicken." Chicken-conscious, that is. What happened was this: Miss Louise Smith of 266 Oxford who works at the city's Urban Renewal office, was chairman of the annual picnic the other night of Theta Sigma Phi, a national professional society for women in journalism and communications. The picnic was at the home of Mrs. John P. (Barbara) Erdle at 215 Whistle Stop, Pittsford.

comes more charged and expectant. You're fascinated by her and reminded of the exceptional vitality and animation that distingu'sh star performers. The catch is that her flow of talk can become exhausting. Occasions! rhanpes of pace are necessary, and Chandler seems to contribute a welcome new temo. wnle continuing the identical line of argument.

According to For.da, the "F.T.A." show originated with "articles in the Washington Post and the New York Times about soldiers in Vietnam who were dissa'isfied with the typical USO shows which they objected to as racist and sexist. "We played to an estimated 64.000 soldiers. When you think that we have hundreds of thousands of men stationed Please turn page Louise was the gal who had to buy the fried chicken, the rolls, and the potato salad for 25 people. She ordered the chicken by phone the night be-fore-three "bbls" of it. She didn't ask the price but figured she had about $22 in her purse, which was plenty.

So she bought the potato salad first, and the rolls, and a pound of butter, and then she got lost and had to buy "gas" in a gasoline station, and finally she reached the fried chicken place, and they gave her the three bbls, which came to $17.49. Louise fished into her purse and came out with $5. Would they take a check? "No." Would they give her the chicken and trust her, be-Please turn page No Sex Trophies for U.S., France Although French and American women were as lhtely to enjoy sex, 45 per cent of the French men and women believed women did not get as much pleasure out of love making as men, compared with only about 30 per cent of the Americans of both sexes who believed this. One-fifth of the French women had had an abortion, compared with 14 per cent of the American women, but French men were less enthusiastic about abortion on demand than American men or women. Only 41 per cent of the male French respondents favored a liberal aoproach to abortion, while it was approved by 62 per cent of the American men, 68 per cent of the American women and 68 per cent of the French Women.

The most substantial differences in attitudes and piactices concerned homosexuality. While almost half of the French respondents-view homosexuality as a deviation or perversion, this view was shared by fewer than one-fourth of the Americans. The survey also found that the French were much more likely to hold a romantic view of love, with far more French respondents disagreeing with a statement that "a person who waits for ideal' love is a fool," and far more agreeing that "love is more important than practical considerations." But the survey concludes "that neither the French nor the Americans win the sex trophy," Based on a finding that frequency of intercourse in both nations ranged from once or twice a week to once or twice a month, or less, for most of the respondents, while daily sex was an experience for only two per cent of the men and threa oer cent of the women. New house News WASHINGTON' Tradition gives the French a monopoly on expertise in affairs of the heart, while Americans, at best, are credited with Yankee ingenuity. But those long held assumptions about Paris in the springtime and the deadening effects of the Puritan heritage run aground in a survey published in the magazine Psychology Today.

A comparison of sexual attitudes and practices shows that Americans are a little more likely than the French to sanction swinging, but neither nation carries off any trophies for sexual activity. Based on questionnaire responses by the readers of Psychology Today and its French counterpart, Psycholgie, the survey showed that 80 per cent of the men and women in botn had engaged in premarital sex. However, 40 per cent of the women and about one-tnird of the men had had only one or two partners before marriage, and only about 40 per cent of the men and omen in botn countries had engaged in premarital sex. But it appeared from the survey that Americans are enjoying their sexual life more than the French. Asked if they had any regrets about premarital sex, 52 per cent of the American men and 41 per cent of the American women said they were "very happy" with their experience.

Among French men the figure was 39 per cnt, and among French woman 37 per cent. Royal Sailing Princess Anne of Great Britain and Princess Grace of Monaco enjoy the outdoors during a visit to Prince Rain-ier's sailboat "Cecilia." (TPI Wirephoto).

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