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...Freshman aspirin-chucker Jim Keyte will probably start on the mound for the Crimson this afternoon at Holy Cross...
...financed by the U.S. National Institutes of Health. The team expects to study 1,000 stroke-prone patients in medical centers round the world. Half of them will receive the operation; the other half will get conventional therapy, which in some cases may be nothing more than aspirin. After five years of close observation, the survey should tell whether the operation is really as promising as the preliminary findings indicate...
Also immobilized by the viral onslaught was the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md., where 3,000 or more of the 4,300 midshipmen were confined to their rooms and dosed with aspirin and cough medicine. Actually, it appears that the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., had been hit by an earlier outbreak but this was not publicized. Before the end of January, 200 to 300 cadets were reporting to sick call daily at West Point. That epidemic has passed its peak but has spread across the Hudson to Vassar. Says Dr. Rita Jaeger, health director...
...antitrust suit asking the courts to splinter Kodak into no fewer than ten separate businesses. Pavelle, a tiny New Jersey firm that sank into bankruptcy in 1975, has brought suit asking, among other things, that the trademark "Kodak" be as freely available to the public as the term aspirin. Polaroid has also sued, contending that Kodak's instant cameras and print film infringed on Polaroid patents. Most ominous of all, the Department of Justice has demanded a mass of Kodak documents, a possible tip-off that it too is preparing an antitrust case...
...multivolume history, The Age of Roosevelt, Arthur Schlesinger Jr. wrote of those radicals who compared the New Deal to aspirin and Bolshevism to heroic surgery. He underscored this passion to cut with three lines of Depression verse: " We care not if Thy flag be white or red/ Come, ruthless Savior, messenger of God,/ Lenin or Christ, we follow Thy bright sword...