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...another development, a federal arrest warrant was issued for Chicago Residents Robert Richardson, 36, and his wife Nancy, 35. Richardson was accused of at tempting to extort $ 1 million from McNeil Consumer Products Co., the manufacturers of Tylenol, with a handwritten note demanding money "if you want to stop the killing." But when his picture flashed on the TV news, detectives in Kansas City recognized him as James W. Lewis, who had been freed on murder charges stemming from the 1978 mutilation in Kansas City of one Raymond West. A nationwide arrest alert was ordered...
...Fort Washington, Pa., a letter turned up at the offices of McNeil Consumer Products Co., the Johnson & Johnson subsidiary that makes Tylenol; it had been forwarded from the Johnson & Johnson headquarters in New Brunswick, N.J., because the word Tylenol had been written on the envelope. The letter demanded that the manufacturer pay $1 million into a postal box at Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Co. in Chicago, and according to Chicago newspapers it implied that there would be more poisonings if this were not done. Investigators identified the sender as a Chicago stockbroker, name undisclosed, who had been...
Johnson & Johnson, whose McNeil Consumer Products subsidiary manufactures the painkiller, immediately recalled bottles with lot number 1801 MA, MC 2880 or 1910 MD, which were among the batches found in the victims' homes, and sent out half a million warning messages to physicians, hospitals and distributors. McNeil agreed to turn over all of the company's distribution records to the Illinois department of law enforcement and to bear the cost of collecting unused and unsold Tylenol, an expense that could reach into the millions of dollars. Until now, Tylenol enjoyed a solid reputation and healthy sales. Analysts estimate...
Late last month two Wall Street stockbrokers, Thomas and Samuel McNeil, publicly accused Hugel of illegal stock manipulation in the mid-1970s. The timing of the McNeils' attack, so long after the events that had turned them into enemies of Hugel's, fueled suspicions that it may have been instigated by Hugel's CIA foes. When Hugel promptly resigned, his mentor, Casey, suddenly looked vulnerable too. Goldwater, in particular, saw the Hugel fiasco as reason enough to replace Casey for having chosen a misfit for the sensitive...
DIED. Robert McNeil), 75, who as chairman of Manufacturers Hanover Trust from 1963 to 1971 led the banking industry in a successful four-year fight for federal clarification of how antitrust laws affect bank mergers; in Orlando, Fla. McNeill worked his way up from a small-town bank teller to become a vice president of Hanover Bank in 1940, and went on to help engineer its merger with Manufacturers Trust...