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...York Democrat Emanuel Celler in the House), the bill is a shotgun blast against everything that Kefauver dislikes in the pharmaceutical industry. It would require drug manufacturers to get licenses from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and give FDA power to inspect and close their plants. It would prohibit marketing of new drugs until they have been proved effective and make FDA the judge of effectiveness (it is now empowered to pass only on their safety, purity and toxicity). Under the bill, FDA could deny a license for a new drug if it only duplicated the effects...
...business expense the cost of advertising directed at Canadian readers in a foreign-owned periodical "wherever printed." The effect: to "approximately double" the cost of advertising in U.S.-produced magazines aimed at the Canadian market. The Commission urged that the customs laws should also be rewritten to prohibit importing any magazine unless it contained "no advertising which on its face indicates the availability of a product or service in Canada...
...court ruled against them in separate decisions, 6 to 3 and 5 to 4. Warren, again writing for the majority, held that the Sunday closing does not prohibit the free exercise of religion, although he did say that the law "operates so as to make the practice of [orthodox Jews'] religious beliefs more expensive." But the dissents were sharp. "The law," wrote Justice Potter Stewart, "compels an orthodox Jew to choose between his religious faith and his economic survival. That is a cruel choice. It is a choice which I think no state can constitutionally demand...
After failing in two previous efforts to persuade California's Democratic-controlled assembly to pass a code of ethics that would prohibit conflicts of interest for both legislators and state employees, Republican Assemblyman Frank Lanterman of Los Angeles last week brought up the code proposal for "the third and last time." By this time he had changed the bill so as to make certain it would hurt no one. "This is simply a statement of our good intentions," said Lanterman, "and carries no penalty." The assembly piously approved the measure by a vote...
...have about the U.S. If, as Lester Pearson maintained four years ago, Canada must increase its exports to the U.S., then our government has an obligation to see to it somehow. If Canada wants to trade with Communist China, and wants to badly enough, our government should not prohibit Canadian subsidiaries from doing so. (And even this overlooks another Canadian complaint that the companies are in fact subsidiaries...