Word: baxter
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...offer, for a quarter or a dime, a sort of divine otherness, a momentary alternative to the quotidian. This escape took many forms, but a particularly swellegant one could be found in the week's attraction at the Jewel, The Purple Rose of Cairo. In it, Tom Baxter (of the Chicago Baxters), "adventurer and explorer," is discovered by a group of rich idlers in an Egyptian tomb and whisked home with them for "a madcap Manhattan weekend," all supper clubs and penthouses, cocktail shakers and white telephones. Movies like Purple Rose, delicately parodied here, proposed not just the possibility...
...neglecting or abusing Cecilia. Her life is like a movie, all right, but the wrong kind, the first reel of an old Joan Crawford weeper. But in Cecilia's movie-house refuge, a couple of synapses in her mind clap hands, and her sweet, silly dreams take life. Tom Baxter suddenly starts talking to her from the screen, then hops down off it to escort her out the back door into reality...
...proposals we dealt with covered a wide range of corporate activity, from a call on Emerson Electric to adopt ethical criteria for accepting military contracts: to a demand that Merck & Co. cease making contributrions to charitable organizations and non-profit institutions: to an appeal to Standard Oil of California. Baxter Travenol, Texaco, and Xerox to abide by minimal standard of ethical conduct in their South African operations or withdraw from that country...
Continental Illinois directors who were asked not to seek re-election at next spring's stockholders meeting include the vice chairman of the board of directors of International Business Machines and the chief executive officers of Borg-Warner, FMC Corporation, IC Industries, and Baxter Travenol Laboratories, individuals with extremely successful track records, none of whose companies had ever had serious problems. Yet, by exercising rights gained last spring when agreeing to bail out the bank, the FDIC has stunned Wall Street by ordering their quick removal...
...hybrid cell can be cloned indefinitely and the antibodies separated from it. At the least, these monoclonal antibodies could be used for diagnosis of many ills; if proved safe, they might cure them. That all seemed a little remote to Greene, who was a successful marketing executive at Baxter Travenol Laboratories, but it stirred a response in Ivor Royston, an associate professor of medicine at the University of California, San Diego, who saw possibilities and began searching for someone to take charge. A venture- capital executive brought him together with Greene...