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...would make it seem that Warner-Lambert has long been a dynamo of invention. Actually, 90% of its drug sales come from products more than ten years old, which is practically a century in that business. The line includes such venerable medicaments as Sloan's Liniment, Smith Brothers Cough Drops, Listerine, Rolaids, and Bromo-Seltzer. Warner-Lambert's newer directions are the result of a corporate turn-around wrought by a man who never ran a business before becoming its president eleven years ago: two-term (1947-54) New Jersey Governor Alfred Eastlack Driscoll...
...Clark (TIME, cover, July 9) has had just about all the excitement he can stand. There he was in his little green Lotus, leading Graham Hill by a comfortable 35 sec., with the race four-fifths over. Coming out of a bend, Clark stepped on the accelerator. Gasp. Cough...
...Hoagland's hunch seemed to pay off. Methylphenidate not only roused would-be suicides from their comas, but it was also effective for patients suffering from coma resulting from brain damage and liver failure. For the first time, such patients were able to swallow food and medication, cough up sputum and mucus, thus avoiding one of coma's worst complications, suffocation...
...curbing a practice that has long been deplored as a phenomenon of the West: too much sex in ads. Praising the ban on low decolletage and high eroticism, the widely circulated China Post two weeks ago deplored "the gimmick of using sex as a selling point for everything from cough drops to synthetic fabrics. Advertising in Taiwan is often an offense to good taste and an insult to the intelligence." The advertisers have been somewhat more cautious since the law's passage, but, Asia being what it is, the prohibition is expected to be ignored before long...
...Congress reduced income tax rates in a two-stage, two-year process, it slashed the uniform 18% withholding rate to 14% in one swoop. The result was that about 20 million of the nation's 65 million taxpayers did not have enough withheld from their salaries, had to cough up some $500 million more...