Word: patent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Smith Kline & French has a patent on dexedrine which ran out after 17 years. Now, as Burack lists them, 16 companies make the generic product, 12 of them for $2.00 or less wholesale per 1000 5 mg. tablets. But dexedrine itself, which is chemically the same thing, sells...
...Yankee ingenuity triumphed again? Has Evelyn Wood produced this decade's answer to Marshall McCuhan and changed reading from a linear to a multiple process? Or is Reading Dynamics just another patent medicine come upon the scene to cure ills that can never be cured...
...almost as a hobby. In Omaha in 1922, he teamed up with a man named Christian Nelson to concoct a chocolate-covered ice-cream bar that became famous as Eskimo Pie. Stover and Nelson were rich within six months but soon got bogged down in a series of costly patent suits. After a falling out with Nelson, Stover started anew in Denver, began producing "Mrs. Stover's Bungalow Candies" with his wife Clara. So popular were his hand-dipped chocolates that Stover opened up five retail outlets in little more than a year. Soon he had a nationwide business...
...Bick pick-up is a public spectacle. A patent-leather red-head comes in. Tall, about 30, as subtle as the Citgo sign in Kenmore Square. You just know she's a whore. She sits down next to some guy wearing a suit. "Wanna buy me some coffee?" is the line. Looks him right in the eye. Then they go out. There's something about the frank way that she looks at him. O.K., baby
From the tip of his razor-cut hair to the toes of his orange (or pink or avocado) patent-leather golf shoes, Sanders is a confirmed, color-coordinated kook. Twice married and twice divorced, he is wildly superstitious, mildy neurotic, engagingly extraverted and outrageously hedonistic. Women? "I'm afraid of dying," he sighs. "That's why I love so hard." Liquor? "I've spilled more," says Sanders, "than Tony Lema swallowed...