Word: drugged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Recently, when Milan's Maggioni pharmaceutical company learned that a drug counterfeit ring was using its label to sell fake tranquilizers, cortisone and heart tonics (distilled water for liquids, common starch for pills), the call went up for Tom and his 31-man "Mercury" detective agency. Going after a gang that he called "hairy-gutted animals-worse than Murder Inc.," Tom recorded conversations with suspects, using a tiny microphone worn like a wristwatch, snapped telephoto pictures with cameras guyed on field glasses, rigged up a periscope on the radio aerial of his car to enable him to peek inside...
...lawyer is Graham French, grandson of Drug Firm Founder Clayton French. For years, French gave CARE donations to the poor abroad instead of sending Christmas presents to friends at home. And then one day he heard of Ike's suggestion that private citizens should help alongside the Government's huge aid programs. French decided to create an entire community. CARE told him it would cost $10,000, and French chose Korea. "After all the years of trouble, I thought they deserved some help. Korea is one of the outposts of the free world...
Every time the cause of some baffling infection is found or a new wonder drug is discovered, the news is hailed as another step toward a hygienic utopia in which disease and premature death will have no place. Not so fast, says one of the world's top authorities on infectious diseases and a pioneer of the antibiotic age; disease is an aspect of man's adaptation to his environment, and as his environment changes, so do his diseases-but they do not disappear. In Mirage of Health, published this week (Harper; $4), famed Microbiologist René Jules...
ANTIFUNGUS PILL that combats athlete's foot, ringworm and other fungus diseases will be sold in U.S., if Food and Drug Administration approves, by Johnson & Johnson and Schering Corp. It was developed by Britain's big Glaxo Laboratories...
...moisteners. This week, to take both the hap and the hazard out of the addilives, a new law (signed by President Eisenhower six months ago; becomes effective. Its burden: before processors may add any chemical to food, its safety must be proved to the satisfaction of the Food & Drug Administration...