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...theme of the school: "Where do we as a people want to go?" The student might learn about art by exploring topics such as: Should radio and TV be owned by the state so as to provide more access to the fine arts? He learns about chemistry by analyzing "patent medicines or radio-advertised foods to test the reliability of commercial claims." As for arithmetic, "a whole unit . . . could be planned around a consumer cooperative or even around running a school store on cooperative principles...
...Through patent-licensing, most big U.S. companies share the fruits of basic research. RCA has earned enough income from royalties and Government contracts since 1947 to make its research program selfsupporting. Thousands of patents developed by Bell Labs may now be used by other companies without charge, as a result of the trustbusting consent decree signed last January by A. T. & T. and Western Electric. Eastman Kodak estimates that at least one-third of 1,800 basic studies published by its researchers have benefited industry as a whole...
...distrusted by many liberals who feel he has betrayed them. As a general rule, he would rather decide a case on statutory law or a legal technicality than on a basic constitutional issue. Tom Clark, still trying to live down his name as Harry Truman's most patent political appointee, tends (with some notable exceptions) to follow the lead of the Chief Justice, whether it be Fred.Vinson or Vinson's successor, Earl Warren. HarIan, a "lawyer's lawyer," has broader previous experience at the bar and the bench than any of his colleagues...
...reddish patch on his right cheek was the only apparent trace of the attack. "And to think that acid bleached the sidewalk," he said. The familiar Riesel mustache was missing, he explained, only for surgical convenience. Actually, he added, "acid makes the hair grow. I think I'll patent it as a hair restorer and sell it to bald newspapermen...
...second biggest rubber company, just a shade behind Goodyear, with 1955 sales of $1.1 billion and a peak profit of $55.4 million. Firestone's start in 1900 was as hard as the jolting, solid-rubber tires of that day. It had to buck furious price competition and inflexible patent monopolies, waited three years before turning its first profit. Then it moved fast. Founder Harvey S. Firestone Sr. developed one of the first pneumatic tires, went on to pioneer the first practical nonskid tire by stamping "FIRESTONE NONSKID" in raised letters on the smooth surfaces. Before he died...