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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...phrases reminiscent of World War II movies, North Vietnamese pilots began shouting "You die, Yankee dog!" over their radios as they closed with U.S. planes. It did not do much good. The dogfight score to date: 49 kills for the U.S. v. 17 for the North Vietnamese...
...competition. Abbott also sent out detail men--salesmen that all drug companies hire to promote their brands. "They wait around the teaching hospitals especially," Burack says, but detail men visit doctors too. The average physician receives one a week, touting the latest cures and "keeping them up to date," Burack says...
Another way to keep doctors up to date is the Physicians' Desk Reference (PDR), which looks very official. But, as Burack points out, PDR is an advertising vehicle--a fact most physicians don't know. The 1966 rate was $115 per column inch, so the gross value of the space that year was over $1,725,000. Nembutol is listed there, like the other brand names, and Abbott paid well for the privilege. In his book, Burack calls PDR "probably the shrewdest and most effective means by which the pharmaceutical corporations perpetuate their hold over doctors and patients...
They were led by Artillery Colonel George Papadopoulos, 48, who took over the most important Cabinet post, Minister to the Premier. The plot had been in the works for two years and involved 300 of the Greek army's 8,000-man officer corps. The date for the take-over was decided, said Colonel Papadopoulos, by intelligence reports that the Communists intended to launch a coup of their own last weekend. Not many Greeks believed that story...
...begin at 4:30. The crew will practice for 45 minutes, then stroke silently along the banks up the lake to the start. As they pass the crowd there will be some murmurs, but most of the crowd's attention will be on the race in progress. Or their date. Or beer-cooler...