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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From the Yam. Syntex's own oral contraceptive, Norinyl, holds a relatively small share of the market, but Syntex also supplies the pill's basic compound to three other major pill makers: Eli Lilly, Johnson & Johnson, and Parke, Davis. Though the pill has made Syntex famous, 59% of the company's sales and half its profits come from other drug products. These include other hormones used to treat skin inflammations and the ingredients of cortisone, a major drug for treatment of arthritic diseases...
...Mexican yam, or barbasco root, yielded much larger amounts of diosgenin. In 1951 Syntex's Dr. Carl Djerassi first synthesized from it female sex hormones that women could swallow. Later it was discovered that the hormones were effective as an oral contraceptive. Syntex then began selling the compound to other drug firms, later introduced its own pill. Both Syntex and Searle now obtain their diosgenin from Mexican yams, which grow wild in the jungles. Rosenkranz, now Syntex's president, has continued the company's research in hormones and nucleic acids, the basic substances of living cells...
KING RAT. A shrewd G.I. con man George Segal) exploits his buddies for fun and profit in Writer-Director Bryan Forbes's harsh, searching drama about survival of the fittest in a Japanese prison compound during World...
...continuing U.S. confession controversy were not complicated enough, now the custom of joint trials has surfaced to compound the confusion. When a crime involves more than one defendant, most prosecutors aim to try them together; indeed, joint trials have occurred in many of the most famous U.S. criminal cases. But what if one defendant's confession implicates another? Is the use of such evidence so unfair to a man who has not confessed that it must be excluded...
...proved almost impossible to apply. The court has yet to find a single piece of writing obscene-largely because even the worst smut seems able to meet the test of social importance simply because it seems like literature to some readers, however socially unimportant they may be. And to compound the confusion, in Jacobellis v. Ohio (1964), the court spelled out what it meant by "community" standards. Because the Constitution is involved, the community is the whole country; the standard must be "national"-as defined by the Supreme Court. As a result, the nine learned Justices (average...