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...sound Nixon policies. He would have one overriding advantage in dealing with foreign powers: their certainty that Ford would be in the White House for at least three more years. Nixon's great skills in foreign affairs are now alarmingly offset by the uncertainties about his future and his patent loss of power at home...
...partner since 1966, Brown may be prejudiced. But other California attorneys and jurists agree. Says Superior Court Judge Emil Gumpert, who founded the American College of Trial Lawyers in 1950: "Ball is one of the few lawyers who can try any kind of litigation-criminal, civil, antitrust, patent, anything. He's the best trial lawyer I've ever seen...
...they put a dead cat inside a small plywood pyramid, the body did not decay but merely dehydrated or was "mummified." Inspired by that work, Czechoslovak Radio Engineer Karel Drbal fashioned his own small pyramid and stored his razor blades in it. In 1959 Drbal took out a patent on the Cheops Pyramid Razor Blade Sharpener...
Freshen Vegetables. Toth acquired the U.S. rights to Drbal's patent, and the idea was talked up by Toth, Flanagan and Eric McLuhan, a former professor of "creative electronics" at Fanshawe College in Ontario, who is Marshall McLuhan's son. After the younger McLuhan published an account of meat-dehydration experiments -which showed that small chunks of hamburger lost their moisture at different rates depending on their placement inside a pyramid-others began trying with flowers, fish and eggs. One is also supposed to be able to freshen vegetables, restore stale coffee, ripen hard fruit, mellow cheap wines...
Lloyd's policy has always been to promote established artists, not to rear unknowns. Understandably, other dealers-especially the ones who brought some present Marlborough stars from obscurity-dislike this. Among them, Lloyd's unpopularity is notorious. "It's a bit like stealing a patent," says London Dealer Peter Gimpel, who lost Sculptors Barbara Hepworth, Kenneth Armitage and Lynn Chadwick to Marlborough. When another London dealer discovered that she had lost a prominent artist to Lloyd, she contemplated a lawsuit. Presently her banker called to say that her credit would dry up if the suit reached court...