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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Radcliffe goalie Sukie Magraw, aided immensely by the aggressive defensive play of omnipresent Laurie Benton, kept the damage to a minimum, allowing only a single score by Clayton...
Died. Karen Krantzke, 30, an Australian who ranked seventh in women's tennis singles in 1970; of a heart condition; in Tallahassee, Fla., after winning a doubles tournament. Krantzke returned to the pro circuit a few months ago after recovering from a forearm injury that had kept her off the courts during most of the past two years...
...appeal of consumerism, pushed through legislation allowing the FDA to ban drugs unless they could be proved effective as well as safe. Thus the agency became involved in preventing possible products from reaching the market, as well as demanding the withdrawal of hazardous ones. Since 1962 the FDA has kept more than 6,500 prescription drugs off the market because their effectiveness could not be demonstrated. The number of over-the-counter products under evaluation has now swelled...
Boosters can sum up the agency's merits in one word: thalidomide. In 1961-62, the stubborn skepticism of FDA Pharmacologist Dr. Frances Kelsey kept that tranquilizer from sale in the U.S.-though it was marketed in Europe and Canada, where its use by pregnant women led to the birth of many deformed babies. Critics, however, can cite another name from the same period: MER29. The FDA approved that anticholesterol drug for use, then rescinded the decision when some people who took it developed cataracts...
Last year the chain's stores-now numbering 4,230-rang up sales of $3.1 billion, 24% more than in 1975. Most of that was kept by franchise operators, but their rent and royalty payments, plus sales of company-owned stores, gave McDonald's $1.2 billion in revenues; the company converted $110 million into profit, about 27% above that of a year earlier. That was enough to permit the company, which had plowed all previous profits back into expansion, to declare its first cash dividends (2½? a quarter). In early May McDonald's signs will...