Word: patentable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tails & Patent Leathers. Sobel's own introduction to golf came at the age of 22, after he had already made something of a name for himself as a ragtime pianist in Europe. Early one morning, after a show at Ciro's in Paris, Ross and some friends set out by car for a tour of the French countryside. As luck would have it, the car ran out of gas alongside a suburban golf course -so Sobel played his first round dressed in tails and patent leather shoes. Within four years he was good enough to attract the attention...
...suave, smoky-eyed predator. His natural habitat is the supper club, his prey the middle-aged female. Cologned, imperially trim, hair sculptured and pomaded, he moves in the spotlight's golden glow like a young god, a smiling vision in pancake makeup, velvet-trimmed dinner jacket, and patent-leather shoes...
Scarcely said than done. Dozens of clergymen who had made the march responded with outraged denials. Reporters who covered the event from beginning to end called the Dickinson report patent nonsense. While there was bound to be some hanky-panky, especially among some of the unwashed youngsters who joined the march for kicks, there was no evidence of open misconduct; certainly there were no arrests, even by the police officials who signed the affidavits. Said United Press International Photographer Phil Sandlin: "I spent five days and nights on the march. None of those things ever happened...
Lately Republican candidates have taken to pleading for votes on the rather barren grounds that a second party must be kept in the running. Patent political grows out of grave weaknesses in the character of the Republican Party, weaknesses which resulted in the Goldwater nomination. Rovere with his careful analysis of Goldwater and Goldwaterism, and Novak with his step-by-step account of the Goldwater victory in San Francisco, expose these weaknesses and help show what a faltering and confused animal the Republican elephant has become
...Approved, in the Senate Patents Subcommittee, the first increase in U.S. patent fees since 1932. The fee for applying for a patent would go from the present $30 to $65, for issuance of a patent from $30 to $100. According to Subcommittee Chairman John L. McClellan of Arkansas, the higher rates would raise U.S. Patent Office income from its present $8,900,000 a year to about $23.4 million...