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Dates: during 1960-1969
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No one believed Inventor Bert N. Adams in 1939 when he came out of his Queens Village, L.I., kitchen with a battery that seemed to revolutionize the original electrical "pile" devised by Alessandro Volta in 1796. Inventor Adams ultimately won a U.S. patent-and then the U.S. Government itself copied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Supreme Court: How Bert Beat the Bureaucrats | 3/4/1966 | See Source »

Primary Accident. A lonely tinkerer in the style of the Edison era, Adams has supported his yen for inventing by toiling at a lengthy catalogue of jobs-cowboy, barber, auto mechanic, house painter, merchant seaman, research director for a vacuum cleaner company. His pre-war kitchen triumph was a primary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Supreme Court: How Bert Beat the Bureaucrats | 3/4/1966 | See Source »

Rev. Robert W. Haney '56, Allston Burr Senior Tutor in Adams House, said that he will urge students to take the test on the assumption that almost every Harvard sudent will do well on it.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tutors Urge Draft Exams For Students | 2/28/1966 | See Source »

The bottom two matches. Harvard sophomore Gordon Black plays Jim Brown and Peter Brooks faces Yale's ambidextrous E.K. Carmody, the fellow who had rather hit with the left than hit with a backhand. Brooks, along with Captain Dinny Adams, will be completing his third year as a varsity letterman...

Author: By Boisfeuillet JONES Jr., | Title: Squash Team Faces Yale In Championship Match | 2/25/1966 | See Source »

The number one match should be the tightest, and a real doozie besides. Adams will shovel his repertoire of shots against the slam game of Yale captain John West. Against Princeton's Burt Gay last Saturday. West won a 3-0 victory with frightening case. Maybe West will remember back...

Author: By Boisfeuillet JONES Jr., | Title: Squash Team Faces Yale In Championship Match | 2/25/1966 | See Source »

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