Word: dimes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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 and repatented his battery without paying Adams a dime. Last week the Supreme Court not only agreed that Adams' battery met the U.S. patent test of being new, useful and "nonobvious"; by a vote of 7 to 1, the court also made clear that Adams' patent had been infringed during years of plain and fancy Government hornswoggling...
BARBRA STREISAND: MY NAME IS BARBRA, TWO (Columbia). Whether clowning her way through a medley of down-and-out songs (Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?; I Got Plenty of Nothin') or recalling the wondrous first moment of love (He Touched Me), the Streisand zing for living is still the most zestful around. She polishes off a couple of lesser-known Rodgers and Hart tunes and, best of all, a ricky-tick rendition of the Fanny Brice favorite, Second Hand Rose...
PETER, PAUL AND MARY: SEE WHAT TOMORROW BRINGS (Warner Bros.). Contrary to the prophecy of cynics, PP&M have stuck together in spite of marriages, babies and success. But, except for two songs that recall their former magic (The Rising of the Moon, Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?), their latest recording suggests that they have about played out their tune...
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? is more than a song title to the seminarians and ministers at Chicago's Urban Training Center for Christian Mission. Shortly after they enroll, they take "the plunge." They are sent out with just $8, to live and work for four days in the slums surrounding the center's headquarters on Ashland Avenue. "It's sort of shock treatment," explains the center's director, Episcopal Father James P. Morton. "It puts them in situations where they're forced to listen instead of spouting, as they're used...
Meanwhile, the putative candidate, whom Wallace wooed and wed when she was a 16-year-old dime-store clerk, was already practicing for the role she may have to play as campaigner and chief executive-not to mention George Wallace's helpmeet. Lurleen was keeping her mouth shut...