Word: patent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Max Hymans, 61, a native Parisian who was an engineer, patent attorney, politician, and wartime Resistance leader before becoming board chairman of the government-owned Air France in 1948; of cancer; in St. Cloud, near Paris...
...Other Family. On South Fifth Avenue, when Leontyne was growing up, few children owned two pairs of shoes, and some did not even have one pair. At a sacrifice, James and Kate Price always saw that Leontyne had a pair for school as well as "patent leathers for Sunday." Says Leontyne: "Mamma never wanted us to go barefoot like the other kids; she wanted us to amount to something." Leontyne's first memory of music is hearing her mother sing in "a lovely lyric soprano voice" as she hung out the clothes in the long, level Price backyard. Leon...
Unresigned to his fate, Tony Benn mailed his viscountcy patent back to the Lord Chamberlain at Buckingham Palace. Last week he watched from the Commons visitors gallery as Home Secretary "Rab" Butler helpfully proposed that the Committee of Privileges investigate the question of whether Benn's parliamentary privilege had been violated. As a last resort, Benn could still defy the 1678 rule barring peers from Commons by standing for and winning re-election to the House -the device by which Charles Bradlaugh in the late 19th century overturned the rule barring atheists from Commons...
...less than second best." Says Martin Solow, president of Brand "X" Enterprises: "There are millions of people who don't want to be first, who believe first place is too crowded. Our cigarette is for the man who, as a boy, dreamed of becoming Vice President." The U.S. Patent Office has already received Brand X registration applications for both products-as well as an application for Brand X popcorn from Brand-X Products Co. of Philadelphia. A Hartford liquor store sells its own Brand X whisky, claims it outsells other brands...
Status Eking. Author Ham laces the willful charm of his love story with a carbonated commentary on suburbanitis, with its worship of errant gadgets (" 'Patent applied for' but never to be granted, I trust"), anxious affluence ("We had enough trouble living 10% over our income"), status eking ("If the price was down around $17,000-in Darien that meant one room and an outhouse on a twenty-by-twenty lot under the New Haven Railroad tracks") and nostalgic concupiscence ("There hasn't been an organized wife-swapping party in Darien or New Canaan for five years...