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Enzymes' End. The detergent makers are quietly moving to allay consumer fears and reduce friction with Government agencies by dropping enzymes. P. & G., which holds an estimated 55% of the market, is expected to start this month by eliminating enzymes from Tide, the nation's bestselling detergent. (The company has no plans for changing ingredients in Biz, its enzyme pre-soak.) Colgate will gradually sift out enzymes from its detergents-Ajax, Punch, Burst, Cold Power-and possibly from Axion, the leading pre-soak. Lever will replace the enzymes in its Drive detergent with sodium perborate, a bleach...
...management divided into two hostile camps-representatives of the government's substantial interest and champions of private investors (including the Agnelli and Pirelli families)-which held equal stakes. Directors had hoped that the appointment of Merzagora, 71, would keep both factions in balance and allay fears that the state was aiming for an outright takeover...
...future. Such Republican liberals as Charles Percy, Mark Hatfield and Edward Brooke, whose terms expire in 1973, undoubtedly perceive the warning signal: if necessary, Nixon is prepared to sacrifice even Republican liberals to alter the character of the Senate. Conservative Robert Dole of Kansas does nothing to allay such apprehensions when he says: "The liberals in the Senate are still important, but they're not the key votes." Then Dole muses: "If we get more conservatives, we wouldn't need them...
...Wilson's greatest achievement," says one Laborite, "has been to allay the suspicions about the party of those voters in the middle. Hitherto they had regarded Labor as too strident and shrill." Some critics complain Labor has all but abandoned its old idealism and has adopted a more conservative approach to government. As Labor M.P. Chris topher Mayhew writes in his book, Party Games: "The older and the younger generation of natural leftists have, in fact, lost hope in the Labor Party. The older generation feels that much of our purpose has been fulfilled; the younger generation feels that...
...Nixon has attempted to allay ?rs by urging repeal of the 1950 ?t Richard H. lchord (D.-Mo.), ? of the House Internal Security ?ee, said repeal of the law, with ?ntees of civil liberties, would ?e President even greater leeway ? unlimited roundups of dissidents ? of Japanese-Americans during...