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...most ways they are so similar that people vaccinated within the past 12 months against A/Victoria, or who actually had that disease, have some degree of immunity against A/Texas, which first appeared in 1977. But, explains Merck & Co.'s Maurice R. Hilleman, their antibody level against A/Texas is only a fraction, perhaps a quarter or an eighth, of their level against A/Victoria...
...advisory committee rejected unanimously a resolution that would prohibit Merck & Co. from contributing assets to political candidates, parties or government officials to purchase favor for its own operations because the committee found the resolution "badly worded and ambiguous...
...committee also rejected unanimously a resolution that would require Merck & Co. to disclose all political contributions of $50,000 or more over the past ten years because it said it is concerned about the "the consequences of retroactive disclosure." The committee has asked the company to adopt a policy of making such disclosure in the future...
...deep-rooted American suspicion of businessmen's motives. Many of our earlier Presidents (starting with George Washington) had some entrepreneurial experience, but the last out-and-out businessman who ran was Wendell Willkie in 1940. Says John T. Connor, chairman of Allied Chemical Corp. and former head of Merck & Co.: "Anyone with previous business experience becomes immediately suspect. Certain segments think that he can't make a decision in the public interest...