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...remember the Largey incident," pharmacist John R. Petricone said Wednesday. Petricone works out of a small drugstore across the street from Roosevelt Towers, the dingy public housing site where Largey tangled with police about four hours before his death...
News of Largey's death caused five successive nights of rioting at Roosevelt Towers. Pharmacist Petricone recalled that youths broke windows at almost every store lining Cambridge Street set cars on fire and spray-painted obscenities on every naked wall. The words "Pigs Suck"--in bright red paint--still adorn a wall on a Towers building fronting Cambridge Street. Residents said the sign is a holdover from the 1972 riots...
Whatever his motive, Dinis did not encourage the grand jury to get involved after the inquest. At the insistence of Foreman Leslie H. Leland, a pharmacist, the grand jury was reconvened in April 1970. But it was muzzled by Dinis' reluctance to press the investigation and by a court order prohibiting the jurors from summoning witnesses who had already testified at the inquest and from examining the inquest transcript. The grand jury quit in frustration, and Dinis declared: "The case is closed...
...question is anything but clear cut," Wacker said. "Some generic brands are as good as name brands," he said, and added it is up to the pharmacist and the physician to know which generic products are acceptable...
Edward Nassiff, a retail pharmacist and member of the five-man registration board, said yesterday he too opposes advertising. "It would initially increase the sale of cheaper generic products at the expense of brand name firms," he said. "But once the generic pharmaceutical houses gain control of the market, they will raise prices...