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...line of lipsticks, nail polishes and other cosmetics keyed to its hair colors. In a business of tough competitors and fickle customers, Schwartz spends $10 million yearly to develop new products, more than $75 million on advertising. Among Bristol-Myers' contributions to American civilization: the first buffered aspirin (Bufferin), the first non-peroxide hair coloring (Born Blonde), the first roll-on deodorant...
...throat and cough. On Friday night-with Lady Bird and Lynda gone, and Luci Baines out on a date-the President was pretty much alone in the White House and, according to aides, feeling a little sorry for himself. The White House physician, Rear Admiral George Burkley, gave him aspirin, some Declomycin and a dose of "the brown mixture," a generation-old cough remedy...
...King Ranch, and at 26 he was Texas Director of F.D.R.'s Na tional Youth Administration. Even then, he drove his people hard. "We're gonna get this job done," he exhorted his NYA staff on one occasion, his hands stuffed in his pockets. "I carry aspirin in this pocket [rattle] and Ex-Lax in this pocket [rattle], and we're gonna get the job done...
Economy-Size Aspirin. Johnson also talks about "these people"-meaning Goldwater & Co. Said he in Akron: "We must constantly be deliberate, prudent and restrained. Before we shoot from the hip, as Mr. Rayburn, the great political leader, used to say, the three most important words in the English language for everyone are 'Just a minute.' " From the way "these people" talk, the President declared in southern Illinois, "all that we need to do is to snap our fingers and ancient disputes that have gone on for centuries will be instantly settled. Well, I wish there was some giant...
...National Bureau of Economic Research every week receives a mass of suggestions from citizens about how to predict the course of the economy: by aspirin sales, race-track betting, blue print production, employment of temporary office help. Some of the suggestions actually make sense, but they are like so many popguns in the economic forecaster's arsenal. The nation's economists, for roughly the same reason as the U.S. Air Force, have developed their own DEW-line warning system to spot trouble on the horizon...