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...Xerox Corp. of Stamford, Conn. The word comes from the Greek xeros, meaning "dry." It refers to the dry, electrostatic copying process (a quantum improvement over earlier wet photographic methods) finally developed in 1938 in a one-room laboratory behind a beauty parlor in Astoria, Queens, by a penurious patent attorney named Chester F. Carlson. Xerox Corp. had revenues of $4.05 billion last year, and today accounts for more than half of all photocopier sales and leases in the U.S. (The chief producers of copying machines after Xerox...
Your speculation that the soaps might be regarded as heirs to the 18th century picaresque romantic novel or to Defoe's Moll Flanders defies belief. Samuel Richardson-author of Pamela and Clarissa-has an ironclad patent on the myths and psychological devices of today's soaps...
...ruling: New York's Crompton & Knowles, Chicago's Stange Co., Cincinnati's Hilton-Davis Chemical Co. They relied on Red No. 2 for up to 25% of sales, and lack-for now-a license to make No. 40. The big winner: Allied Chemical, which owns the patent on No. 40 and licenses other companies to make it under the name Allura...
...successful patent lawyer and inventor, Rines has been engaged in scientific work ever since he and a few wealthy friends founded an organization called the Academy of Applied Sciences in 1963. The institution, which has no connection with any university or recognized research organization, is vague about its membership and seems to have financed little in the way of study on its own. An Academy member, Peter Byrne, has searched for the legendary Bigfoot. A New York lawyer has acquired an animal that some feel may even be Bigfoot. Michael Miller bought the creature, described as resembling "a bald chimpanzee...
Although Sissela doesn't want to bring any part of Sweden to America, she is not at home here. Sometimes she comes down from her garret and dresses up in pastel skirts with matching jackets and white patent leather shoes and confronts these Americans who made demands on her as the wife of the President, or as a serious academic...