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...multimillion-dollar business cannot be run on fun and flowers, the Beatles be latedly discovered after the death in 1967 of their canny manager and mentor, Brian Epstein. More interested in gadding about than tending to their enterprises, they left their convoluted corporate empire (see chart) to run on its own momentum. Inertia was not a successful philosophy. Three of the biggest companies in which the Beatles hold stakes have lately tumbled into trouble...
When the chemicals were injected into male rats, their offspring showed a high rate of embryonic death, said Dr Samuel S. Epstein, research associate in Pathology and Chief of the Laboratories of Environmental Pathology and Carcinogenesis at the Children's Cancer Research Foundation...
Prenatal death of the treated mice's offspring indicates chromosome damage caused by the injected chemicals, Epstein explained...
...Epstein believes that the data from his tests with mice "may be appropriately extrapolated to man." He recommended that this and other tests for chemically-caused mutations should be used for safety evaluation of chemicals to which man is exposed...
...Chemical mutagens in the environment pose potential hazards which have not yet been systematically explored," Epstein said Sunday at the 60th annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research in San Francisco...