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...Ford wasn't too unhappy. He hadn't had that much publicity in months, and he saw to it that the press notices kept flowing by retorting righteously: "I broke no confidence. I refuse to be baited into a verbal donnybrook with the Commander in Chief that would play into the hands of Hanoi, Peking and Moscow...
...Legal Donnybrook. The industry's failures are relatively few - 13 drugs have been removed from the market for reasons of safety in the last three years - but they are usually the kind that raise a storm. Five months ago, Richardson-Merrell of New York pleaded no contest to criminal charges that it had concealed information about the harmful side effects of MER/29, an anticholesterol drug; it thereupon was hit with an $80,000 fine and a rash of suits by users of the drug. The three-year congressional investigation of the industry by the late Senator Estes Kefauver...
While undergoing added scrutiny, the industry is also divided against itself. In a legal donnybrook over the price and patents of the tetracycline antibiotic, some 30 suits and countersuits have been filled by producers, buyers, sellers and the Federal Trade Commission. Criticism of the prices charged by big companies has led smaller ones to increase their output of generic drugs, which generally sell for half the price of brand-name products. Compounding the industry's frustration is the fact that, despite steady increases in research budgets, fewer than 20 new basic drugs will be introduced this year compared with...
Balance in Sight. Stung by last year's Donnybrook with Congress over foreign aid, Johnson asked for only $3.4 billion, the smallest request since the U.S. began pumping Marshall Plan aid into Europe in 1948. Of that total, $1.2 billion went under the Defense budget, thereby trimming the vulnerable economic aid request to $2.2 billion and giving Congress a smaller target...
Sweeping around West Germany on a four-city concert tour. Soprano Maria Callas, 38, was guilty of not one prima donnybrook, seemed to be newly tranquilized. Though an eye inflammation bedded her down for a day in a Bonn hospital, she gamely went on with the show the next evening, restrained her storied temper even when flashbulbs popped during performances. Cooed her concert agent: "Maria has changed completely. She is a charming, amiable, friendly woman...