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...folks at Cliffs Notes can't seem to take a joke. Last week the purveyor of the plot summaries so dear to lazy students won a court battle to prevent Doubleday from distributing Spy Notes, a Spy magazine parody...
...postwar "Pax Americana," Washington's world role largely involved resisting Communism through a network of military alliances. That period is passing, being replaced by what has been dubbed a "Fax Americana." America's influence will derive, in part, from its role as an exemplar of ideas and a purveyor of information. Ronald Reagan, in a speech in London last month, talked about how "electronic beams blow through the Iron Curtain as if it were lace." In Bratislava, Czechoslovak students sometimes drop by the city's new hotel, equipped for international television reception, where the maids let them watch the music...
...seems like something out of George Orwell: television sets souped up so they can watch viewers watching them. Last week Nielsen Media Research, purveyor of the make-or-break TV ratings, announced plans to develop just such a gizmo. The "passive people meter," a computerized camera system, would sit atop sets in thousands of households, keeping an eye on every move that viewers made...
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...
Introduced at the end of a decade of economic hardship, TV was touted early on as a creator of jobs as much as a purveyor of entertainment. The centerpiece of the Smithsonian's exhibit is a display of old TV sets -- clunky wooden boxes with tiny, anemic-looking screens. But perhaps more significant is a selection of print advertisements that tried to sell Americans on this strange new gizmo...