Word: elys
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Sanders will resign both as associate professor of medicine at the Medical School and as a member of the board of directors of the Eli Lilly corporation, a competitor of Squibbs, he said...
...blacksmiths who turned their forging talents to toolmaking. In the 18th century, craftsmen gathered in the manufacturing hubs of England, France, Germany and Sweden to fashion tools that would enable machines to produce items like clocks and locks. The trade flourished most dramatically in America. In the early 1800s, Eli Whitney helped to pioneer mass production, using standardized, interchangeable parts at his Connecticut musket factory. By the early 1900s, the toolmaker's skills enabled machines to engrave the Lord's Prayer on a sliver of metal less than one-hundredth of an inch wide...
Federal District Judge Jacob Mishler of Brooklyn ruled this month that Eliçofon, now 77, must return the paintings whose value is now estimated at up to $5 million apiece, to the Art Collection of Weimar, a museum in East Germany. In his 87-page decision, Mishler wrote that the museum "has demonstrated that the Dürers were stolen and that it is entitled as owner to possession." Of the 7,900 paintings listed as "destroyed and vanished" between 1939 and 1945 in East and West Germany, the Dürers are the only notable works that have...
...Eliçofon calls the verdict "wrong and unfair." Instead of granting a motion for summary judgment, he argues, Judge Mishler should have submitted the case to a jury to decide whether the Weimar museum had really proved its contention that the Dürers were stolen. He also maintains that he bought the paintings in good faith and that no one could prove that the seller had not somehow acquired valid title to them in Germany. Therefore, he contends, the German law of "good faith acquisition" should protect his ownership. Says...
...while, the Dürers will remain in a Manhattan bank vault, where they have been locked away from the skirmishes of the past 15 years. If Eliçofon, a Latvian-born Jew who grew up in a New York tenement, wins his appeal, he plans to sell the Dürers and donate some of the proceeds to Jewish charities. Says he: "It would be a minute reparation for the wrongs done to the Jews by the Germans...