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The results were so remarkable, Windom said, that tests in a dozen medical centers were being halted so that control groups of AIDS sufferers -- who had been receiving only placebos, or dummy drugs -- could immediately begin treatment with AZT. Furthermore, Windom has petitioned the Food and Drug Administration for speedy...
That study, designed by Burroughs Wellcome Co. in collaboration with medical specialists and AIDS experts, began in February and was scheduled to end in December; it involved 282 subjects. Some were victims of AIDS who during the previous four months had also suffered their first bout of PCP. The remaining...
Despite these inauspicious beginnings, the little school that Cotton Mather called a "college of divines" slowly grew. William Stoughton, '50, who grimly sentenced 20 people to death for witchcraft, was the first alumnus to donate a building. (By contrast, the Rev. George Burroughs, '70, duly became the only Harvard man...
Now that Burroughs and Sperry are merging, the computer companies have hired a consultant to think up a new name for the combined firm. They are offering a $5,000 prize if an employee comes up with a better moniker.
While the new firm will have some 12% of the world market for mainframe computers, it will still be hard pressed to challenge mighty IBM, which controls nearly 63%. Critics note that Burroughs and Sperry computers do not run the same programs and thus cannot be linked together. Some customers...