Word: gardners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Operation Overkill sets in, but the play is weak in credibility and ramshackle in structure. Only the actresses stand out. Eileen Heckart is a thorough delight as Dede's pal Bella Gardner, a swaying lush more avidly at home in bedrooms than boardrooms. In the juiciest part, Estelle Parsons blows through the play like a typhoon...
Patterson (7) 10-October Light, Gardner...
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...touched off last week by a Food and Drug Administration announcement that it was taking first steps toward halting sales of saccharin, the only noncaloric artificial sweetener approved for use in foods and beverages in the U.S. since the banning of cyclamates in 1970. Acting FDA Commissioner Sherwin Gardner emphasized that he saw no immediate hazard to public health from the chemical. Thus his agency will not immediately stop the manufacture of products containing saccharin (which account for at least $2 billion annually in sales) or recall those already on the shelves. But, Gardner insisted, "science and law dictate that...
...announcement, Gardner insisted that the "loss of saccharin will at worst be an inconvenience." Most diabetes specialists disagreed. They pointed out that many of the estimated 10 million Americans who suffer from diabetes find saccharin absolutely essential to fulfill their craving for sweets. At Boston's Joslin Diabetes Foundation, callers were urged to write strong letters of protest to their Congressmen. Exclaimed the foundation's president, Dr. Alexander Marble: "This ban is against common sense!" The American Diabetes Association was so concerned about how to deal with the saccharin crisis that it scheduled an emergency meeting. Said...