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...doubts about how the big maker of tiny transistors and integrated circuits will do in 1967. The rate of new orders has "declined appreciably," so he ordered a temporary cutback of sorts in his Dallas plant: normal eight-hour work shifts were shortened by precisely 30 minutes...
...last week to form a grand coalition for the first time in the republic's 17-year history. Into the klieg lights of waiting TV cameras in Bonn's Bundeshaus stepped the Christian Democrats' candidate for Chancellor, silver-haired Kurt Georg Kiesinger, 62. "We had an eight-hour discussion of all essential questions, which led to a convergence of views," said Kiesinger. Beside him, nodding approval and sealing the agreement with a handshake, stood Willy Brandt, 52, West Berlin's mayor and the leader of the Social Democrats. Barring a last-minute hitch, the two parties...
...eight-hour pain-reliever, originally approved by a Cambridge drug-testing firm, has been taken off the market by the Food and Drug Administration. The FDA said the original tests were "irregular," and the manufacturer has been unable to prove the drug effective without those tests...
Although Dr. Robert F. McCleery, director of FDA's Medical Advertising division, recommended that all claims based on Cass research be removed from labels--including the drug's chief selling point: "eight-hour pain relief"--this was not done, according to Fountain. Instead, the company was told to simply delete Cass's name from its claims. As a result, Fountain said, "promotional labeling and advertising continued to contain claims based on Cass work...
...hours away from settlement. It looked like a long 90 minutes, courtesy of the Printing Pressmen, the only one of ten unions that had not come to terms with the newly merged corporation. Last week the World Journal Tribune was still insisting that the pressmen work an eight-hour shift on Saturday night, just as they do at the New York Times and the Daily News. The pressmen were still holding out for a 6½-hour shift. Both sides stood...