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Palandjian, a senior and Eliot House resident, teamed with Engle on Wednesday for opening-round doubles action, in which Charles Beckman and Royce Deppe of the University of Texas downed the Crimson...
Marks poisoned capsules in a series of Orlando stores six months ago, after buying so-called put options in the stock of SmithKline Beckman, the manufacturer of all the non-prescription drugs. The option purchase would allow him to profit if SmithKline stock fell after the news of the tampering. Then Marks spread word anonymously of his deed, and SmithKline quickly % recalled its medications. In the end, though, Marks made no money. After pleading guilty to nine counts of tampering and communicating false information, he faces up to 54 years in prison and a $2.25 million fine...
Thousands of different kinds of nonprescription capsules continue to be sold today. In all, Americans bought about 10.5 billion doses of these gelatin-cased medications last year. Among the leading brands: Contac (made by SmithKline Beckman), and Sinutab and Benadryl (both made by Warner-Lambert). Nearly all over-the-counter drugs are two-piece capsules, although the single- piece model, used for some vitamins, is perhaps safer. If anyone were to try ; to pierce a single-piece shell, it would probably leak and be very difficult to seal again. In tampering with two-piece capsules, a criminal might be able...
After an ingredient used in rat poison turned up in some of its pills, SmithKline Beckman last March recalled all its Contac cold-remedy capsules (1985 sales: $55 million). The episode came soon after a Peekskill, N.Y., woman died from taking a cyanide-laced Tylenol capsule. The decision to remove Contac from the market cost SmithKline $8 million...
Yale's Liebowitz and Baldwin were not so fortunate. Unable to avenge defeats in the singles, they bowed to Boss and Beckman...