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Around the world, drug companies are teaming up in search of success. Britain's Beecham Group, purveyor of Tums antacid and Brylcreem hair lotion, last month merged with Philadelphia's SmithKline Beckman, developer of the antiulcer drug Tagamet, in a deal that will create the No. 2 pharmaceutical company after Merck. American Home Products, the maker of Advil and Anacin, is acquiring A.H. Robins. Merck, meanwhile, is scarcely standing still. In March the company formed a joint venture with Johnson & Johnson, its New Jersey neighbor, under which Merck will develop over-the-counter versions of patented medicines that Johnson & Johnson...
...music stops and a handful of big-name box-office attractions make a grab for one another's chairs. It happened a few years ago when Previn left the Pittsburgh Symphony; Lorin Maazel quit the Vienna State Opera and landed in Pittsburgh; Riccardo Muti, 47, conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra, added the directorship of La Scala in Milan to his resume; La Scala's former leader, Claudio Abbado, 55, headed for Vienna. About the only one who did not go anywhere then was the New York Metropolitan Opera's James Levine...
These remarkable moving images and hundreds like them on display last week in Philadelphia at the tenth annual exposition of the National Computer Graphics Association are more than pretty pictures. Each represents a three- dimensional microcosm, stored within the memory of a computer, that human operators can turn, twist and reshape all they want. When special goggles, bodysuits and gloves are used to display and manipulate the images, those microcosms can become so real that viewers feel they have stepped through a kind of electronic looking glass into a completely artificial, computer- generated world...
...Philadelphia forward Charles Barkley--the Round Mound of Rebound, the Guru of the Glass--and tonight in the first round of the NBA playoffs, Lord Charles will plant his large frame under the basket, dominate the paint and lead the 76ers to victory over the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden...
...engaged in small talk about Koop's busy schedule and Mapplethorpe's latest exhibition, organized by Philadelphia's Institute of Contemporary Art. "Robert had been thrilled about the prospect of shooting Koop," says Anne Kennedy, the photographer's agent. "He had enormous respect for him and his compassion for people suffering from AIDS. He really rallied to do this. He had been spending most days in bed." Out of respect for the Surgeon General's well-known views on smoking, Mapplethorpe hid his cigarettes before Koop arrived...