Word: inventors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...like Roofless, Slobsville and Dirt; Abscess, Deviltry and Grief.* There was a place called Snout, and another called Corn-on-the-Foot. In the Pinsk district, such villages as Breadless, Emaciation, The Hungry One and The Thin One reflected dishonor on the good offices (and great girth) of the inventor of Goulash Communism himself, Nikita Khrushchev...
Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib and Mir Taqui Mir are not exactly U.S. household words. But Minute Rice is, and it is the wish of its inventor, Afghan Immigrant Ataullah K. (Dial-Durrani, that the two little-known 19th century Persian poets roll trippingly off American tongues. Ozai-Durrani's will, probated six weeks after his death at 66 in Denver, leaves more than half of his $1,000,000 estate to Harvard "or some such nonprofit institution" to translate the poets' works into English and underwrite biographies. Ozai-Durrani's lawyers are being besieged by half...
UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO Richard Buckminster Fuller, engineer, designer, inventor, teacher, and creator of the geodesic dome...
Last week, at the Medical College of Virginia Hospital in Richmond, Dr. Boyd Withers Haynes Jr. had two burn patients recovering rapidly in virtually germ-free surroundings, thanks to an ingenious device. The "Life Island," as its inventor, Frank E. Matthews, an ex-Navyman, calls it, looks like a plastic bubble completely enclosing the hospital bed. It has a console of Buck Rogers gadgets at the foot. Dr. Haynes is testing two Life Islands for the U.S. Army Surgeon General's office, and there is another at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto...
...into the Manhattan office of a General Foods executive, set up his portable stove and demonstrated a quick-cooking rice he had developed, so handy that General Foods marketed it as Minute Rice, which with its imitations accounts for 25% of all rice cooked by U.S. housewives, filled its inventor's ricebowl with royalties estimated at more than $1,000,000; of cancer; in Denver...