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...This probably isn't important," Paul Webking told the medical examiner's office after his wife died unexpectedly June 11, "but Sue opened a new bottle of Excedrin capsules this morning and took two." Tragically, it was important. The bottle opened by Sue Snow, a 40-year-old banker from the Seattle suburb of Auburn, was found to contain three capsules laced with cyanide. When county officials released the bottle's lot number, Auburn Neighbor Stella Nickell, whose husband died June 5, called police with more bad news. Bruce Nickell's death, linked originally to natural causes, was reattributed...
...Adult Maximum Strength Aspirin-Free Tablets now come in multilayered plastic sheets so tough that a consumer can get a headache just trying to pry one open. Other manufacturers have tried, not successfully, to find the middle ground between and frustration. Bristol Myers now packs bottles of Excedrin and Bufferin in little pull-top cans that look like baking-powder canisters. The company picked this approach, which will cost an extra 5? per package, after trying out 24 different methods. It found that consumers liked the idea that any tampering with the can is especially easy to spot. They also...
...fear, the copycats have not yet killed anyone. But whoever put mercuric chloride into Excedrin Extra-Strength capsules purchased by William Sinkovic of Aurora, Colo., narrowly missed. Sinkovic, 34, suffered acute kidney and liver failure. Emergency surgery saved his life, but he is still in serious condition...
They just look funny. Jack Lemmon: personification of the Excedrin headache, his sinus cavities almost visible, the corners of his mouth wrenched in a clown's grimace as the voice machine-guns a blast of staccato croaks. Walter Matthau: the epitome of slob insouciance, a flophouse face and shaggy-dog body, wearing clothes like rumpled bed sheets, maneuvering across a room like a hunchback tiptoeing on roller skates. To see either one is to smile; to see them together, in The Fortune Cookie or The Odd Couple or here, working variations on the Mutt-and-Jeff theme...
Paying income taxes is a headache at best, but not knowing how much you owe calls for a double gulp of Excedrin. For the second year in a row, 150,000 Americans working abroad face that situation as a result of a 1976 tax code amendment that would sharply increase their taxes. The amendment would add much to the costs of firms doing business abroad and hurt the nation's trade balance by making it harder to sell U.S. goods and services in foreign countries. Businessmen have protested so persuasively that Congress delayed enactment of the amendment...