Word: suits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...long Madame, whose first husband made a fortune on a chain of newsreel cinemas, was lavishing her three boundless resources-romantic enthusiasm, energy and hard cash-on medieval restoration. She trained masons to lay a new roof on the chapel and made them do it over four times to suit her. The castle towers, which Mayor Isnard once threatened to tear down before they tumbled, now jut sturdily into the air. Two massive feudal gates again open and close off the town, and once-buried streets have been restored...
...depths of his imagination? Those art-seminar questions are now the very practical concern of a Paris court. At issue are 32 works of sculpture that came out of the atelier of the great French impressionist painter Auguste Renoir shortly before his death half a century ago. In a suit seeking to win rights as "co-author," a Spanish-born sculptor named Richard Guino, 78, is arguing that his were the hands that really shaped the Renoir masterpieces...
Special Bonus. Now white-thatched and ailing, Guino says that his belated suit grew out of "economic necessity and a desire for justice." Only the "exceptional relationship between two great artists," Guino's lawyer told the court, "made possible the miracle of Renoir-Guino sculpture." As recompense, he demanded nothing less than 50% of the royalties from all statue reproductions, past and future...
...Then ten years later, the Army got a patent of its own-without a word to Adams-and ordered more than a million batteries built to its own design. Sure that he had been bilked, Bert went to court. Six other men, who had backed the invention, joined the suit. Not until 1966 did the U.S. Supreme Court rule that Bert's patent had indeed been infringed. Last February the lawyers involved agreed that the Government should pay $2,500,000 in damages...
...West Germany's financial center by Frankfurt and is now being challenged in the fashion industry by both Munich and Düsseldorf. Siemens, West Germany's biggest electrical-equipment company, moved its headquarters out of West Berlin after World War II, and others have followed suit. The inconvenience of maintaining facilities geared to West German markets in West Berlin is only too apparent. Complained one industrialist after recently abandoning Berlin: "Last year I spent 250 days aboard airplanes...