A happiness game in which players move around a path of game board spaces in accordance with a chance device. Alternate playing spaces are indicated by directional arrows. These playing spaces being associated with "frown" playing cards and the "frown" cards being covered by, "smile" cards in accordance with the rules. The object of the game being for each player to cover as many "frowns" as possible.

This invention relates to a process of reducing 2,4,5-trialkyl 2,3,4,5-tetrahydropyrimidine and/or 2,5,6,8,9-pentaalkyl 1,3,7-triazabicyclo (3,3,1) non-3-enes to yield 2,4,5-trialkylhexahydropyrimides and/or 2,4,5,6-tetraalkyl-5-(2-azoalkyl) hexahydropyrimidines; and to the cleavage of the above reduced products so as to convert the above hexahydropyrimides from cyclic amines to corresponding linear diamines and triamines. This invention also relates to the products produced by the processes.

An article of footwear comprising a unitary shell enveloping the foot, having a heel collar and an incision therein adapted to accommodate an inserted foot and including an intrinsic pattern of elastic interconnections between predetermined points on the shell corresponding to locations analogous to the natural foot physiology.

A filtering cell including a resonant circuit having an inductor and capacitor connected in parallel, the inductor being separated into two identical inductors which are connected in series with a midpoint therebetween. A second capacitor is connected at the midpoint and has a quality factor substantially equal to a quality factor of the first inductor, resulting in attenuation at the resonant frequency. Each of the inductors and capacitors are formed by micro-ribbon technology.

A marine drilling platform is recessed at one side to receive one end of a supply vessel in pushing or pulling relationship. Both the platform and the vessel have power sources comprising motors, but only the supply vessel has propulsion means. The power from both the platform power source and the supply vessel power source is applied to the propulsion means of the supply vessel, thereby taking advantage of the power which must in any event be provided on the drilling platform for drilling opera...

A decoder has a first memory for storing a coded first image. The image is stored in the first memory until it has been decoded at least twice. The results of the decoding operations can be supplied to a playback device. The invention makes it possible to dispense with an output frame buffer for the decoded first image, and thus only little memory is required in the decoder.

A polarimeter includes a prism (32) for separating the incident light beam (21) having a Stokes vector (S) into a reflected beam (22) and a transmitted beam (23), the prism not inducing any interferential effect and the transmitted beam being subjected to at least a reflection internal to the prism. The polarimeter also include two final separators (3, 4) for separating respectively each of the reflected beam and the transmitted beam into at least two final beams (25-28), detecting means (5-8) f...

A process for the preparation of diazo compounds, particularly diazoalkanes, is described in which a hydrazone is oxidized with an oxidizing agent, said oxidizing agent comprising an organic peracid, chloramine-T or N-chlorosuccinimide to a corresponding diazo compound, preferably in the presence of a base. The reaction may be catalyzed by an oxidation catalyst such as iodine.

Diarylimidazothiazoles, such as 2,3-dihydro-5,6-bis(p-methoxyphenyl)imidazo[2,1-b]thiazole, useful as antiinflammatories.

Hypolipidemic agents of the formula: ##STR1## wherein X is C.dbd.O or CHOH, R.degree. is branched lower alkyl, R is hydrogen, alkyl, or halo, n is 1 or 2, and R' and R" are hydrogen, halo, alkyl or alkoxy, e.g., 4-phenoxy-pivalophenone.