Word: co
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Unmoral and Un-American. The boycott had been the decisive lever. Lionel Steinberg, co-chairman of the growers' group, admitted: "We are definitely hurting. It is costing us more to produce and sell our grapes than we are getting for them." Despite unusually large purchases by the Department of Defense, which Chavez's backers have hotly criticized, reduced consumer demand has caused prices to fall as much...
Some men bid for immortality with a simple statue or park bench that bears their name, or by endowing a university chair or a foundation. Not George T. Delacorte. The 76-year-old founder of the Dell Publishing Co. seeks to perpetuate his memory in a more spectacular way: through a series of monuments, each splashier than the last. The splashiest to date is the Delacorte Geyser at the tip of Manhattan's Welfare Island, which was tested last week for the first time...
...TIME, June 20). Some investigators, on the other hand, believe that drugs, not vaccines, will eventually conquer many other viral afflictions. Yet when the drug proponents met last week at a Manhattan symposium sponsored by the New York Academy of Sciences, they were dispirited and disaffected. The vaccinators, complained Co-Chairman Ernest C. Herrmann Jr. of the Mayo Clinic, have hogged not only the limelight but also the available funds, thereby inhibiting the development of potentially valuable antiviral drugs...
...caused by the fever-blister virus, and methisazone against smallpox. What exercised the virologists most last week was a third chemical, amantadine, an anti-influenza drug that the Food and Drug Administration has licensed, but under strict controls. Trade-named Sym-metrel by E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., amantadine does not cure a fullblown case of flu. But it may prevent infection if taken before exposure, and mitigate the illness if taken early enough afterward. The trouble with amantadine is that it can produce insomnia, nervousness and lightheadedness, especially in older people, who would then be liable...
...formative years, sent TIME into virtually every non-Communist country, and organized a fortnightly international edition of LIFE for Spanish-speaking people. More recently, as director of corporate development, he helped lead Time Inc. into a variety of new ventures, among them Boston's Little, Brown & Co., the publishing firm...