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Adams got his patent in 1943; the Government got its own in 1953, based on the slight improvements of two army scientists. Adams finally got mad, and with the aid of an anonymous benefactor whom he credits with putting up $200,000 to fight the case, he went into the U.S. Court of Claims in 1960 and charged patent infringement. Fighting back, the Government cited older patents that used all of Adams' basic ingredients; an expert tried to build a battery according to the key (1880) patent, however, and the thing exploded. In the end, the court found that...
...researchers' benefactor was James M. Jacobs, who owns J August Co. on the Square and a great deal of expensive ham radio equipment tucked away in his home on a hill in Brookline. Begining the morning after the assault, he spoke daily with officials of the hospital in Cuenca where the victims were being treated, and with the American Embassy in Quito. Every morning he connected the home phones of the Nortons and Paynters into his 4000-mile radio hookup, and they were able to follow the progress of the victims as if they were in the neighborhood hospital...
Europe of the Past. They were telling retorts, and they persuaded some important Frenchmen. Elder Statesman Vincent Auriol, 81, whom De Gaulle recently had flown to Paris in his presidential Caravelle for medical treatment after a fall, turned on his benefactor to endorse Mitterrand. Jean Monnet, architect of the Common Market, backed Mitterrand as well, because he found De Gaulle's idea of Europe the "Europe of centuries past, a rebirth of the nationalist spirit that has brought tragedy to France and Europe." Even De Gaulle's first-ballot, right-wing opponent, Lawyer Tixier-Vignancour, joined the other...
...excellent diplomat," exclaimed papa, "because women like him and because he is a liar." Flor de Oro tired of Rubirosa in 1937, but Trujillo had found that he came in handy for many tasks, and Rubi stayed on the Dominican diplomatic payroll most of the time until El Benefactor's assassination in 1961. At its first meeting, the new government fired...
...addition, the king promised Wagner all the money he needed, a new theater, a new music school and a new home. Ludwig also bombarded the 51-year-old composer with tender letters vowing eternal devotion. Wagner, a short, haggard-faced man, was careful not to alienate his doting benefactor, but he had other irons in the fire. Immediately on his arrival in Munich he asked that his close friend, Conductor Hans von Bülow, be brought from Berlin to conduct Tristan. While he valued Von Bülow's talents, he was even more anxious to secure those...