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...which benefited from a banner year for auto sales. By itself, G.M. accounted for three-quarters of the profit gain posted by the entire group. Other giants got bigger, too. Seven companies joined the once-exclusive billion-dollar-sales club, raising membership to 127. The newcomers: Philip Morris, Nabisco, Bristol-Myers, Combustion Engineering, Campbell Soup, Iowa Beef Processors and CBS. Meanwhile, Standard Oil of California became the twelfth U.S. company to register sales of more than $5 billion a year...
...complaints name three firms, American Home Products (Anacin and Arthritis Pain Formula), Bristol-Myers (Excedrin, Excedrin P.M., Bufferin) and Sterling Drug (Bayer aspirin, Cope, Vanquish, Midol). On the basis of research by the Food and Drug Administration, the FTC says that there is no reasonable basis for claims that any of the analgesics is better than any other, or that they relieve nervous tension. There is, says the agency, "a substantial question as to the validity, sig- nificance or interpretation of tests and studies related to such claims...
...hopes that the affected firms will accede to its requests without an argument. But such an agreement seems unlikely. Said Frank Mayers, president of Bristol-Myers Products: "We remain confident of the quality and effectiveness of our products and of the truthfulness of their advertising." The FTC will probably have to issue formal complaints and hold hearings, the results of which could be appealed up to the Supreme Court. Such procedures are usually lengthy; it took the FTC 16 years to get the word "liver" out of Carter's Little Liver Pills...
...between England and America are symbolized for him in more ways than David Frost's schizophrenia. Theater is much more a way of life in England. This manifests itself also in a great increase in regional theaters throughout England. "I wouldn't mind going back to the stage myself." Bristol's Old Vic has established a theater called the Young Vic. "It's packed every night. It's a kind of Shakespearean theater-in-the-round, where everyone can come. And they do. In America it's different. An evening at the theater is a major investment...
...Report puts a stress on "...individual discovery, of first-hand experience and on opportunities for creative work. It insists that knowledge does not fall in neatly separate compartments and that work and play are not opposite, but complementary." Featherstone outlines primary school examples in Leicester shire and Bristol where time and space are freed to allow classroom explorations to cover more than a single rigid discipline at a time, to permit children to learn from one another, and to facilitate each individual's development of confidence in self-expression by making choices available among learning opportunities. The teacher helps...