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...Salk's laboratories could not produce more than a fraction of the hundreds of gallons of vaccine needed for such a massive trial. So it is being made according to his specifications on a nonprofit basis by five pharmaceutical houses-Parke, Davis & Co. in Detroit. Pitman-Moore and Eli Lilly & Co. in Indianapolis, Wyeth Inc. in Philadelphia, the Cutter Laboratories in Berkeley, Calif. For all of them, the indispensable raw material is the monkey, and the procedure is much the same. For example...
...owner and editor Wheeler Sammons, 64, took formal steps to make the book an institution. Sammons, a Pickwickian-looking arbiter of fame who considers listing in his book to be roughly the American equivalent of making the Queen's Honors List, set up a nonprofit foundation with a board of trustees to protect Who's Who's integrity and put its profits into biographical research. Explained Editor Sammons: "I never want Who's Who to fall into irresponsible hands...
...nonprofit, fact-gathering group set up in 1949. Supported by 130 drug and chemical manufacturers, H.I.F. is pledged to do no lobbying, to present its findings impartially...
...program, drafted by the White House in close cooperation with Secretary Oveta Gulp Hobby and her Department of Health. Education and Welfare, stressed nongovernmental and nonprofit health-insurance organizations, with voluntary membership. The President suggested a limited (initial capital: $25 million) federal reinsurance program to "encourage private and nonprofit health-insurance organizations to offer broader health protection to more families." Also recommended: intensified public-health research, a simpler formula for allocating grants-in-aid to the states, expanded vocational rehabilitation and hospital construction grants-in-aid programs...
...While Zeiss has long been Germany's biggest cameramaker. and is the second largest in the world, the camera business is only one part of its optical empire. Founded more than 100 years ago by Instrument-maker Carl Zeiss and Physicist Ernst Abbe, it is controlled by the nonprofit Carl Zeiss Foundation, which taps off the earnings of eleven owned or controlled factories "for the furtherance of the precision-instrument industry and science in general...