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...than one dollar in 57 for savings and life insurance. Yet even the educated hang on to a few old tribal customs. Selling washing machines to Bantus is practically impossible because washing by hand is still considered as essential a wifely duty as childbearing. Bantus are rabid users of patent medicines, considering them a stimulant to sexual vigor; in one 1,000-home survey, Mkele found 300 different kinds of patent medicine...
...from Dr. Harken's work, most of the pioneering in heart surgery has been done away from the Brigham, though some of it only a block away at Children's Hospital. There in 1938, Dr. Robert E. Gross led the way toward heart surgery with his pioneering patent-ductus operation (to shut off a vessel that is necessary during fetal life, but should close automatically soon after birth). He followed this with a more daring operation in 1946 to remove a narrowed section of the aorta-a crippling and potentially fatal defect with which some babies are born...
...Crabb mysteriously died in Portsmouth harbor while trying to examine the cruiser's hull. Yet the state visit continued and official relations remained unruffled because London followed the code by calmly disowning the dead frogman. The rule here, says Author Felix, is that "a covert operation's patent hostility can be ignored by the victim who uncovers it only if he receives the cooperation of the author of the act." Hence Khrushchev's discomfiture after the U-2 incident when he told newsmen he was certain that President Eisenhower had no personal knowledge...
...found it with no blueprints for its weapons, no research or engineering department, no catalogue of its thousands of tools, by World War II had so changed things that Smith & Wesson cornered 75% of U.S. Army revolver orders, has since all but pushed rival Colt's Patent Fire Arms Mfg. Co. out of the sidearms business; of a heart attack; in Newton, Mass...
...process called xerography (derived from Greek and meaning dry writing), which showed promise of reproducing papers and documents without the standard need for chemical developing. He bought some of the rights to xerography from Battelle Memorial Institute, a nonprofit industrial research organization that had helped its inventor. New York Patent Attorney Chester Carlson, develop the process...