Word: patentable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Beneath her black patent-leather opera pumps, the world unreeled at a giddy 100-m.p.h. pace. Her dispatches home, most of them decorated by the Journal with three-column glamour portraits of the author, were breathless with excitement and punctuated largely by exclamation marks: "Rome looked swell in the late twilight!" "Those Italian military uniforms are wonderful!" "I loved Italy, but Greece takes the cake for magnificent beauty!" "The Near East reeks with romance!" "Just think-tomorrow I'll breakfast in Basra, lunch in Bahrein and have my dinner at Sharjah...
What made the chickens change their egg formula after all these centuries? A new feed developed by Manhattan's Drew Chemical Corp. and tested for two years by a team of Dallas doctors did the trick. Since a patent is pending, Drew is understandably closemouthed about the feed's contents. The com pany admits only that it is a vegetable, not chemical, substance. If the Utah tests prove successful, Drew hopes to sell its eggs throughout the U.S., has lined up such major suppliers as Nulaid and Olson Bros, for production and Safeway and other foodstore chains...
...when he needed him most keenly, he found and then lost his mother again at the time of his sexual reawakening." (Keats was fifteen then: sexual reawakening?) Distasteful as that sort of thing is when it concerns Keats's personal life, it recovers at least to the level of patent silliness where literature is involved. "Though 'Calidore' (one of Keats's earliest poems) is a fantasy of rebirth, of emergence into a masculine world, not of mere retreat as was the 'Imitation of Spenser' (Keats's first poem), it shows Keats still closely tied to half remembered early experience...
...prettied-up corpse, put on display in a ghoulish, make-believe sleep, is neither reverent nor religious, but a giant feat of merchandising. She has deadly fun with such astonishing specialists as the Practical Burial Footwear Company of Columbus, Ohio, which offer Fit-a-Fut oxfords (in patent, calf, tan or oxblood) and Ko-Zee, with its "soft, cushioned soles and warm, luxurious slipper comfort, but true shoe smartness." Courtesy Products has a "new Bra-form, Post Mortem Form Restoration . . . they accomplish so much for so little ($11 for a package of 50)," and at a recent convention...
...line with Land's longstanding policy ("Let's only make what somebody else can't make"), Pola roid farms out the production of its camera to U.S. Time Corp. (Timex watch es), keeps only the top-secret film-making process to itself. By 1965, however, its patent protection will begin to run out, and the door will be opened to imitators from all over the world. Land intends to make it hard for them to catch up. The Automatic 100 even has two exposure settings on it for films that have yet to appear on the market...