Word: suits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shortly after 10 o'clock one morning last week, a frail man in a light grey suit stepped out of a Soviet-built IL-14 transport onto the tarmac of Belgrade's Zemun Airport. Dutifully, the visitor surrendered himself to a welcoming bearhug from his stocky, sun-bronzed host, accepted bouquets from four dewy-eyed young Pioneers, and acknowledged the salute of a snappy, blue-uniformed honor guard. Then Poland's Wladyslaw Gomulka and Yugoslavia's Marshal Josip Broz Tito headed off across the Yugoslav capital in a motorcade whose first three cars were a Rolls...
...that cheered Gomulka through Belgrade came shouts of "Welcome to Poland's Tito!" Catering to the simple tastes of his guest, pomp-loving Marshal Tito even abated somewhat the imperial splendor of his parties. ("Comrades who do not have a dinner jacket will be welcome in a dark suit.") They adjourned to the Adriatic island of Brioni, where Tito lives it up in one of Mussolini's old playgrounds...
Scotch and sandwiches streamed into a suite in Chicago's Ambassador West Hotel for 48 hours straight last week. Inside, a dozen high-priced lawyers barely paused to refresh. When they did pause at last, patent-challenger Zenith Radio Corp. had finally pinned heavyweight champ Radio Corp. of America after eleven years of legal jujitsu. In the biggest antitrust recovery in history, Zenith settled for $10 million in its $61.7 million suit against...
Rebellion. Like Henry Ford, who broke the Selden pool of automotive patents in 1911 by refusing to pay royalties, Zenith President Eugene McDonald openly rebelled. In 1946 he stopped RCA royalty payments on radio tubes, filed a suit in Delaware charging an RCA conspiracy to monopolize the industry through patent control. In 1954 Zenith incorporated the original suit in a new one filed in Chicago, asking $16,056,000 in damages from RCA, Western Electric, Westinghouse, General Electric and 14 foreign electric companies. It charged that all had conspired with RCA to keep Zenith out of foreign markets through patent...
Plan Ahead. In Kansas City, Mo., after shabbily dressed Major Williams, 32, was arrested for routine questioning, he admitted that he had committed three recent holdups, insisted that his goal was a new suit so that he could look presentable and people would not "suspect me right away" when he robbed a bank...