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...wants to help people take the years off their faces. Next month Barnard, 63, will visit Wall Street to tell investors about his new line of skin-care products, called Glycel, which promises to help erase wrinkles through a scientific process. Barnard and a team of biologists developed the formula at an institute in Basel, Switzerland. Barnard's business partner is a former banker who now owns La Prairie, a Swiss clinic where youth formulas were tried out by the likes of Winston Churchill and Charles de Gaulle...
Barnard claims that his new formula encourages skin-cell regeneration. He and the research team discovered the key ingredient in the hearts of cattle and tested the potion for five years on some 250 women. Glycel will be marketed by Alfin Fragrances, a Manhattan-based perfume maker. Alfin expects to introduce Glycel by February in about 500 tony stores. The product line will reportedly range in price from a $30 skin cleanser to a $195 package of five items. MANAGEMENT Too Little Kick from Champale...
...deciding factor undoubtedly will be the further success, or lack of it, of the reforms. Deng's formula for overcoming opposition is a simple one: leave the critics alone and let them see for themselves that the system works and that they would be better off if they went along. "We will let practice dissipate their worries and misgivings," he says...
This successful conspiracy between author and audience works best in the evanescent pages of a daily newspaper. Packed lead to kicker in book form, Buchwald's formula whimsy loses much of its punch. Verbal skits about Geraldine Ferraro, Michael Jackson, the President, home-computer miseries, the Pope and Cabbage Patch dolls now read like shots in the dark. Yet this and previous collections of the journalist's craft may one day enjoy new life. Buchwald's job is to repeat history as farce faster than one can say Karl Marx. To the patient reader, farce inevitably returns as nostalgia...
...group called Centers for New Horizons, describes a typical case. Having been saved by the hospital's routine miracles, the baby goes home to a mother whose welfare check runs out three weeks into the month. When the food also runs low, she is reduced to stretching the formula by adding too much water. The child may look healthy, but the dietary imbalance can cause severe growth retardation and infections that could ultimately lead to death. Meara tends to be quietly angry with the shortsightedness of a society that will readily spend $50,000 to save a premature infant...