Development of a polyimide for use as a temperature and solvent resistant sealant

Polyimide developed by the interaction of benzophenone tetracarboxylic dianhydride, polyoxypropylene diamine, and oxydianiline is used for fuel tanks that are exposed to extreme temperatures

Changing Objectives in Legal Education

IT may be said without much question that there is more activityin the law school world today than there has been at any timewithin the last generation or two. Things are in a state of flux-the culmination of a long period of suggestion and countersuggestionwith little change. The addition of new courses tothe curriculum, the general re-arrangement of existing coursesto admit various types of non-legal materials, new approaches inlegal thought, new ideas concerning teaching methods, the adventof fact research, and a dawning awareness of the existenceof other social sciences than law, all testify to a rapidly changingworld. But while there is thus much acceleration and somemotion, it is safe to say also that there is far less idea of directionthan apparently existed during the last sixty years. The oldlaw school objectives have to some extent been swept aside andnew ones have not yet been adequately formulated. It is hereproposed to examine the older order briefly in the light of recentdevelopments and to attempt a statement of possible present objectivesin terms of concrete curricular re-adjustment

A Factual Analysis of Certain Proposed Amendments to the Negotiable Instruments Law

The first objective in amending the Negotiable InstrumentsLaw should be to bring the statute into as nice adjustment withpresent needs as possible. This consideration, it is believed,overshadows all others. The act, viewed as a part of the contractof the several parties to negotiable paper, should be writtento permit them to carry their transactions through efficiently andin the manner contemplated. At the same time, the legislationshould not cloak unfair practices. It should be drafted to requireonly a minimum of recourse to the courts. Although theseends seem obvious, there is by no means agreement as to howthe statute should be amended to attain them. What is a fairrule, what is an efficient or convenient one, or, in fact, what isthe understanding of the parties to commercial paper concerningtheir agreement in any given case

Before Elites: The Political Capacities of Big Men

In directing us “beyond elites”, the editors of this volume invite us to consider not only whether we have over-estimated the centralized control that metal working enabled or demanded in prehistoric Europe but also to move beyond standard typologies of political forms and evolutionary concepts (Kienlin, this volume). To move beyond elites, of course, we must understand what constitutes an “elite” and elite society. If we take these concepts to imply some kind of socially reproduced restriction on access to leadership positions and accompanying social stratification, then we are asked to consider whether Bronze or Iron Age European societies operated in the absence of an ascribed hierarchy and significant political complexity

Bank Collections -- The Direct Routing Practice

The establishment of the Federal Reserve system gave promiseof sweeping aside a half century of unsound bank collectionpractices. The most spectacular of these, the one whichlargely preoccupied the economists interested in banking, wasthat of circuitous routing.l Under this practice items on relativelyclose points were often shunted back and forth acrossthe country for days and even weeks before finally being presentedfor payment, and then, in event of dishonor, were sentback through the same devious route to reach the depositoragain. The method was slow, costly, and fraught with risk.The additional handling increased the chance of error, the delayincreased the risk of non-payment, and, even when payment wasmade, the multiplication of banks increased the risk of lossthrough bank failure