Word: topic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...books and designing toys. In Chicago three years ago, Artist Nudelman designed a little toy pig that would cling to a cereal bowl, "eat" anything fed to it, and then inconspicuously drop its food back into the bowl. Entranced by Nudelman's gadget, Chicago's Topic Toys sent "Hungry Piggy" off to market and got a patent. But soon the pig had unwanted company...
...newcomer was a similar animal (also patented) called Puppy Tu (because he eats with you) put out by Chicago's Crest Specialty Co. Crying patent infringement, Topic Toys brought suit against Crest Specialty-and won. But Crest fought the case all the way up to the Supreme Court. Last week, the court reversed the judgment, held that neither Piggy nor Puppy could be patented. In so ruling, it referred to another decision which blasted the U.S. Patent Office for patenting a host of thingumabobs that add nothing "to the sum of useful knowledge." Among them: an oval toilet paper...
Comrade Weiss, a short and cocky man with thick lips, started his lecture on the topic "Is America headed toward War or Peace?" by pointing out that the Great Debate over MacArthur "is symptomatic of the crisis in the ruling class of America." He rattled out all the West's troubles--China, crime in high places, England's cabinet crisis, and strikes in Spain--to prove that capitalism is dying...
...Whitney Griswold, president of Yale University, will help Adams celebrate its 20th anniversary tonight. He is scheduled to address Adams House members at their annual final House dinner. The topic of his talk has not been revealed...
...World Socialist Party on whether capitalism is detrimental to society (8 p.m in the Leverett Junior Common Room). The Oxford system allows the audience to cross-question the speakers and to decide by vote which team is the winner. Obviously the method is feasible only when the topic is controversial enough to arouse audience interest...