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Nothing particularly dramatic lay behind his change of heart. The Security Council issued a vaguely worded memorandum hinting that he might in the future have a few additional powers, and there was an indication that the tightfisted Russians might come through with $7,000,000 to help the U.N. pay some of its bills. But most of the same old problems were still there. As U Thant himself told the Assembly in accepting the appointment, there was no reason for him "to have new hope" that his second term would be much smoother than his first. The main factor...
When newsmen first gathered around Lyndon Johnson's bedside at Bethesda last week, they found him intently studying a memorandum on the question of a tax increase. The President shoved the document toward the reporters for a quick glance. One sentence stood out. "We feel there is a high premium," it said, "on an announcement within the first ten days of December...
...true that many inventions will not have an obvious application, and that firms will not take the risk of developing the product without patent protection. The CRIMSON, however, failed to point out that President Kennedy's memorandum in 1963 specifically directed the federal agencies to grant patents to the inventor where exclusive ownership was necessary incentive to call forth risk capital to bring the invention to the point of practical application. Of the six patent bills pending before Congress in 1965, five, including Senator Long's bill, allow for this exception. Kenneth A. Plevan...
...present system is a parody of the one President Kennedy tried to set up a few weeks before his assassination, when he issued a memorandum on patents to his executive department heads. He insisted that, since the government pays for the professors' research, it should be able to decide how their discoveries are used and who makes money from them. But he wanted the policy to be flexible, with plenty of consideration for the professors...
...excuse as they jockey for assignment to a judge they like better. In Los Angeles, no trial is scheduled until both sides' lawyers agree that they are prepared to be present in the courtroom. At that point, the lawyers sign a "certificate of readiness" and a later memorandum fully describing the case, asserting that all pretrial motions have been made, swearing that no settlement is in sight, and estimating precisely how long the trial will take...