Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...believed Inventor Bert N. Adams in 1939 when he came out of his Queens Village, L.I., kitchen with a battery that seemed to revolutionize the original electrical "pile" devised by Alessandro Volta in 1796. Inventor Adams ultimately won a U.S. patent-and then the U.S. Government itself copied and repatented his battery without paying Adams a dime. Last week the Supreme Court not only agreed that Adams' battery met the U.S. patent test of being new, useful and "nonobvious"; by a vote of 7 to 1, the court also made clear that Adams' patent had been infringed during...
...page ninety-eight of the South Carolina state history text is a picture of a young Negro boy sitting on a pile of cotton and eating watermelon. The caption under the picture reads: "This is a Negro child...
...pointed out, these conditions have been reversed, and the prospects are uniformly unfavorable for China. "We are," he said, "a far better, greater military power. We have been preparing for this kind of guerrilla-war challenge ever since 1961. We have a vast stock pile of nuclear weapons, the ultimate deterrent of any great expansion." In similar vein, when Fulbright expressed apprehension that "the Chinese may feel very nervous about a war," Taylor retorted: "They should. If they ever got in a war with us, it would be disastrous for them...
...pile need not grow forever. Under President Johnson's proposed Food for Freedom program (TIME, Feb. 18), recipient nations would pay for U.S. food in dollars under a long-term credit arrangement starting in 1971. Meanwhile, the U.S. is considering establishing binational philanthropic foundations to soak up much of the cash and use it primarily for education. A bill to start such a program languished in committee last year. Congress apparently could not believe that the Administration really needed help to spend money...
...Leslie's discovery that her tyke has secretly made his movie debut opposite a Junoesque redhead in a wild bikini. Such rancid twists of plot could easily sour a comedy, except that the kid is a disarming moppet named Michael Bradley who saves his heartiest responses for a pile of red plastic blocks. Warren saves his for Leslie, and most of the fun is as simple as that...