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...claims from women who say they were injured by Robins' Dalkon Shield, a small plastic intrauterine birth-control device. Yet in the past few weeks suitors lined up as if Robins had discovered a cure for cancer. Two U.S. drug companies (Manhattan-based American Home Products and the Rorer Group of suburban Philadelphia) and one foreign pharmaceutical and cosmetics house (Sanofi of Paris) made offers for Robins. As the bids proliferated, a federal bankruptcy judge gave Robins a Jan. 6 deadline to pick a suitor and file a reorganization plan...
...flurry of takeover bids. Right through New Year's Day, the contestants kept raising the ante. American Home Products, the maker of Anacin headache tablets, reportedly offered $3.08 billion, as Sanofi did. But A.H.P. wanted all of Robins, while Sanofi was content with 58%. The last announced bid from Rorer, the manufacturer of Maalox antacid, was valued at $2.98 billion...
...really good race for us," JV coxswain Katia Rorer said. "The people in the boat said they rowed better than they ever rowed before in that race. We moved all through the race, moved through each segment, and got more out of each 500 [meters]. Everything about our race plan worked...
...street and on campus, methaqualone is known by various corruptions of its trade names: "quads" (from Quaalude, made by William H. Rorer Inc.), "French Quaalude" (from mispronunciation of Parest, the Parke, Davis & Co. brand name), and as "soap-ers" (from Sopor, made by Arnar-Stone Laboratories Inc.). It was so popular among the young people who camped out at last year's political conventions that Miami Beach's Flamingo Park was dubbed "Quaalude Alley." Its abuse is now a major problem at many colleges and high schools. It is currently favored by the addict community...
...John E. Rorer '69, Nicastro will speak in Latin...