Word: marion
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...Food and Drug Administration might be reluctant to green-light the drug. That's because the FDA's pressure prompted Hoechst-Marion-Roussel to pull probucol from the market two years ago: The drug lowers the body's levels of artery-protecting "good" cholesterol by 40 percent, a definite drawback...
That is evidently the case in Santa Fe. The launch of the museum and the assembly of the 87 works in its nascent permanent collection, worth about $15 million, have come about thanks largely to Texas cattle baroness Anne Marion and her husband John, the former chairman of Sotheby's North America. Approached in 1995 to contribute funds and some of her O'Keeffe paintings to the Museum of Fine Arts in Santa Fe, Anne Marion decided on a dramatic and wholly Texan response: establish a museum devoted to O'Keeffe herself...
Plans were formed at a gallop. Marion bought an empty Spanish Baptist church turned art gallery and hired New York architect Richard Gluckman, who was known for his design of the Warhol museum in Pittsburgh, Pa., and the site of SITE Santa Fe, an ambitious biennial exhibition of vanguard art that the Marions also helped fund. Not without a certain symmetry, if one's taste runs to icons of the Western spirit, Peter Hassrick, the former director of the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, Wyo., was hired to fill the same role at the O'Keeffe...
...members of the Faith Tabernacle, the Christian Science Church and various other sects. When child-protection groups have petitioned legislatures to remove these exemptions, the legislators have bowed to church lobbying and refused. If parents of children dead for lack of medical care have "suffered enough," legislators have not. MARION S. COOLEY Wyoming, Ohio...
...National Rifle Association board, Charlton Heston is launching a crusade to unseat Neal Knox, the NRA's controversial first vice president, in elections Tuesday. Heston hopes to counter Knox, a longtime NRA member who is working to wrest control of the group from 56-year-old president Marion Hammer and executive vice president, Wayne LaPierre. Knox and his followers blame Hammer and LaPierre for the lobby's huge drop in membership and a massive $56 million debt. If successful in his bid for control, Knox and his followers, labeled by LaPierre as "a band of militia gun devotees," could drastically...