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...production, the more phlegmatic Rice was content to let it run its course and enjoy the success. A few months later, when Rice dropped out of a treatment of P.G. Wodehouse's unflappable butler, Jeeves, Lloyd Webber enlisted Playwright Alan Ayckbourn and put the show on the boards in Bristol. It eventually closed in London after 47 performances -- a failure that continues to rankle the fierce perfectionist...
...capsule that had been laced with cyanide. Nickell's widow Stella told authorities that her husband had taken Excedrin from the same product lot. They concluded that Nickell too was the victim of a cyanide-laced capsule. The two deaths sparked a major criminal investigation and prompted Excedrin manufacturer Bristol-Myers to issue a nationwide recall...
...attorneys' briefs in the appeal have been filed with the Bristol County district attorney's office, which will have attorneys Philip Weiner and Patricia Ellis arguing against acquital...
Other possible vaccines are being tested on chimps by Bristol-Myers and the Institute for Immunological Disorders in Houston. Both have applied for permission to test vaccines on humans. Testing is already being done by Dr. Daniel Zagury of Paris' Pierre and Marie Curie University. Zagury included himself among twelve healthy people who received an experimental vaccine made up of a portion of the AIDS virus inserted into a larger, usually harmless virus called vaccinia. They also received a booster shot of their own cells that had been treated with the vaccinia. The volunteers, he reported, showed signs of antibodies...
...meanwhile, a number of research teams are eager to conduct their own human trials of experimental vaccines. Bristol-Myers, for example, plans to seek approval from the Food and Drug Administration within the next month for tests of a preparation similar to Zagury's. Such tests would only be the first step in a process that will probably take years. "You're dealing with a very sneaky virus," observes Jeffrey Laurence, an AIDS researcher at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center. "It's going to be a long haul...