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Every receptionist is familiar with the situation: an importunate visitor without an appointment insists on seeing the boss to air real or imagined grievances. Such was the case with the confused, middle-age woman who pestered the receptionist last week at the Manhattan head quarters of the Deak-Perera foreign exchange company before being ushered out of the office. It might have been just another wrinkle of life in the big city--except the woman soon returned with a gun. Before she was tackled and disarmed by a police officer, Lois E. Lang, 44, had shot to death Receptionist Frances...
...will hurt himself or others. Two Washington psychiatric evaluations earlier this year characterized Lang as "a paranoid schizophrenic [and] seriously psychotic," but one of them concluded: "We have no reason to believe that she shows a significant likelihood of dangerous behavior to those around her." Last week in a Manhattan office that prognosis proved to be fatally flawed. --By William J. Mitchell. Reported by Joseph N. Boyce/New York and Charles Pelton/San Francisco
...than 30 different products, including radios and baseball bats. Last year Coke licensed its name to Murjani, the maker of Gloria Vanderbilt jeans, which now offers 125 items of sportswear emblazoned with the cola's trademark. Sales of the clothes have been so effervescent that the beveragemaker opened a Manhattan store called Fizzazz to sell only Coca-Cola clothes. Shoppers sip free cola as they gaze at clothing displays projected onto a 25-ft. wall of viewing screens...
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...
...They expected a fuss, but they didn't think the issue was important enough for the size of the fuss we made," said Denver Psychologist Lenore Walker. She was one of seven feminist psychologists and psychiatrists who were invited to Manhattan last week, all expenses paid, to sit in on a closed meeting dealing with proposed revisions in psychiatry's diagnostic bible, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (Third Edition). DSM-III is of crucial importance to the profession. Its diagnoses are generally recognized by the courts, hospitals and insurance companies...