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...Aspirin is just plain aspirin and nothing else," says Wisconsin's Senator Gaylord Nelson. It is just that, he claims, regardless of how much it costs and whether it carries a famous brand name. Nelson goes further: he believes that prescription drugs for serious illnesses should be dispensed, not under a manufacturer's trademark name, but under the "generic" (common chemical) name, which usually carries a lower price tag. Whether generic and brand-name drugs are really medically equivalent has been debated before Nelson's Senate Monopoly Subcommittee for almost two months now. So far, no witness...
There are simply no false notes. Carnovsky makes everything ring true. And the famous set speeches emerge naturally out of the fabric of the character rather than as so many interpolated arias. But even in a short line Carnovsky manages to convey the fifty lines that lie unspoken behind...
...Arabs. Or so it would seem from post-victory advertisements that the tea company has been running in Israeli newspapers. "The gallant fighters of the Tank Corps," explain the ads, "appreciate a good cup of tea as the most invigorating drink. That is why the designer of the famous British Centurion provided facilities for the crews to brew tea inside their tanks. A good soldier will endure every hardship, but he will not give up his glass of tea. Wissotzky Tea, of course...
...brought up on S.S. Pierce's groceries," remarked Oliver Wendell Holmes a century ago when a rival merchant sought the patronage of that autocrat's famous breakfast table, "and I don't dare change." A bulwark of proper Bostonian life for most of its 136 years, the haute cuisine grocery chain has long filled an epicurean niche in U.S. gastronomy. With its own coat of arms adorning a distinctive red label on canned goods, and the largest line (5,000 items) of privately packed fancy foods in the world, S.S. Pierce sells its delicacies not only through...
...loving Bostonians could hardly believe the news. Stockholders of the family-owned firm had just agreed to sell it (for some $10 million cash) to Laird Industries Inc., a newly formed subsidiary of Laird & Co., the New York stockbrokerage and investment banking house. Though Laird plans to keep the famous grocery line - and stylish manner - it will install as new president and chief executive Roger D. Williams, 42, former executive vice president of Rheingold Breweries. S.S. Pierce President Wallace L. Pierce, 55, a great-grandson of the founder, will stay on as chairman...