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After an exchange of punts, the Bruins fumbled again. Charging defensive end K.C. Smith forced Kettelberger to cough up the ball at his own nine...
Richardson-Vicks, which sells such popular products as NyQuil cough syrup and Clearasil acne cream, agreed to sell out to Procter & Gamble for $1.24 billion and thus avoid a bid from Unilever. Revlon, which markets items ranging from Charlie perfume to Tums antacid tablets, eluded Pantry Pride by accepting a buy-out offer of about $1.7 billion from Forstmann Little. If the deals go through, Richardson-Vicks and Revlon will join General Foods (Jell-O, Maxwell House coffee) and Nabisco (Oreo cookies, Ritz crackers) on the list of consumer-goods titans being taken over this year...
Having agreed to pay $5,000 down, cough up $45,000 by Nov. 15 and come through with a $20,000 final payment on March 1, the two set to finding partners who would purchase $5,000 pieces of the action. Larson sold his lifelong collection of baseball cards, which numbered nearly 300,000, keeping only those of the great Eddie Mathews because "he was my man." Soon after the agreement was reached, they went to Utica where, in a wind-driven icy rain, their spirits sank...
...locker of Willie Mays when both played for the New York Mets in the early '70s. "The Willie Mays?" asked Defense Attorney Adam Renfroe. "Willie Mays -- the great one," replied Milner. An angry Mays denied the charge, and his doctor told CBS that the red liquid was cough medicine. "It's a shame that a man can be crucified...
...surface, A.H. Robins of Richmond would seem to be a thriving company. Its popular products, including Robitussin cough syrup, Chap Stick lip balm and Sergeant's flea and tick collars, last year generated record sales of $632 million. But the 119-year-old pharmaceutical firm is now facing financial ruin because of a $3 item it has not sold in a decade: the Dalkon Shield intrauterine birth control device. Deluged by more than 12,000 lawsuits charging that the Dalkon Shield was responsible for countless serious illnesses and at least 20 deaths among the women who used it, Robins last...