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...whole improbable enterprise was started in the depths of the Depression by a 28-year-old Nebraska pharmacist named Ted Hustead. He had a $3,000 stake, a wife, a child of four, and the brass of a born capitalist. Now 78, with wire-rimmed trifocals, thin white hair and a deeply lined face, Ted looks like a kindly drugstore man out of Norman Rockwell. In earlier pictures, he looked more serious and resolute. "We weren't trying to make it rich," he recalls. "We were trying to make a living...
...What is more beautiful, really, than a business?" he asks rhetorically. A registered pharmacist, he runs the operation now, although Ted, officially retired for a couple of years, still puts in several hours a day during the busy summer season. Bill's son Rick, 31, a former high school guidance counselor in Iroquois, S. Dak., who returned to Wall in March, may some day take over the reins...
...Marine with a black belt in karate, has no qualms about taking on Dixon. Says O'Neal: "I've always accomplished what I've set out to do -running for office or becoming a good bowler." Ten years ago, when he was a pharmacist in rural Belleville, he decided to run for sheriff when a deputy took two days to answer a complaint by O'Neal's wife about a prowler. O'Neal won handily, fired the deputy and soon made a name for himself by packing two pistols on drug busts...
...will still be able to administer tranquilizers as they see fit. Indeed, some critics regard the action as little more than a sugar-coated placebo that will have little effect. As a consequence, they are calling for even stronger measures to cope with what FDA Commissioner Jere Goyan, a pharmacist, calls "our overmedicated society." One reform proposed by Dr. Sidney Wolfe, head of Ralph Nader's Health Research Group: require doctors to write a new prescription every time a patient wants to buy tranquilizers. Under the FDA's current rules, tranquilizer prescriptions can be refilled up to five...
...licensed pharmacist, not a printed insert, is the best source of drug information for consumers. He can sense how much an individual needs to know about his medication, can help the patient monitor his progress and act as an effective link between patient and physician...