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...Morgan said she had bought the Tylenol on Sept. 29, the day before the first deaths were reported, and that very day wanted to take some at a family gathering. Her sister offered Bufferin, she said, and she decided to take that instead. She escaped death, she says, by "blind luck...
...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...
...Geritol and FemIron remedy tiredness, loss of strength or nervousness. The FTC turned the case over to the Justice Department, which is suing for $1,000,000 in penalties against Williams and its agency, Parkson Advertising. Similarly, the FTC has been investigating the advertising promises of Excedrin, Anacin, Bufferin, Bayer, St. Joseph aspirin and other analgesics since the early 1960s. It has issued complaints and proposed guidelines, but its efforts remain bogged in the courts on procedural technicalities...
Meanwhile, the council stays divided, and Ralph J. Dunphy remains in the City Manager's office. Last week, he asked for an appropriation of $100 for medical expenses of his office. One councillor--a pharmacist by trade--suggested that the money would go to Bufferin. His colleagues laughed, but not too heartily, for they knew the headaches that Cambridge politics can bring.John G. ShortA meeting of the City Council...
...Moss's staging is still a physical butt, who in the progress of three acts is whipped, stabbed, clouted and generally knocked about by a group of people who refuse even to recognize his existence. But dressed in a vinyl union suit blazoned with commercial trade-marks (Bufferin, Vat 69, Rise) and bits of Old Glory, he is now something else, something both more and less than Vian's Smurtz...