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The drug has been code named compound S by its developer the pharmaceutical firm Burroughs Wellcome.
Kerouac is a histo-biography, following the author from his working class beginnings in Lowell, Mass. to his eventual post-breakdown return to New England. Spliced in between are Kerouac's confrontations with the big city, his chaotic ventures through the U.S. that led to books like On The Road...
During interview segments, other Beatnik writers do not deny Kerouac's status as "King of the Beat Generation." Kerouac seems to be the hardest to pin down. He doesn't have the grisly panache of Burroughs or the self-conscious religiousity of Ginsberg. There is a certain instability, an un...
His family fled from Oranienburg, Germany, to Shanghai in 1939 to escape the Nazis' persecution of Jews. Interned by the Japanese during the war, Blumenthal was 21 when he came to the U.S. in 1947 as a "displaced person." Within a week he had found a job as a shipping...
Critics doubted that the merger would do much for either company. One problem: Sperry and Burroughs make mainframe computers that are largely incompatible. "It's a mismatch, like plaids and stripes," says Howard Anderson, chief executive of the Yankee Group, a research firm.