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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there are signs that now--just three weeks after The Handbook of Prescription Drugs went on sale--Burack is getting impatient with his role as the tolerant doctor. In a rare moment of confidentiality during an interview last week, he leaned over and said, "You know, between you and me, it's silly to pussyfoot around here. I think it's time to clean this thing up right...

Author: By James K. Glassman, | Title: Harvard Doctor Exposes Drug Pricing Hoax | 5/10/1967 | See Source »

...names--a generic or official chemical name and a brand name for merchandising purposes. Nembutal, for example, is a well-known sleeping pill made by Abbott Laboratories. Nembutol is its brand name; Sodium pentobarbital, its generic name. Under patent laws Abbott had exclusive rights to the manufacture and sale of Nembutol for 17 years. During that time it could charge whatever the traffic would bear since there was no competition. Abbott also sent out detail men--salesmen that all drug companies hire to promote their brands. "They wait around the teaching hospitals especially," Burack says, but detail men visit doctors...

Author: By James K. Glassman, | Title: Harvard Doctor Exposes Drug Pricing Hoax | 5/10/1967 | See Source »

...will carry 300 passengers to its competitors' 130-odd. The U.S. aircraft, to cost $40 million each, will be able to fly from New York City to Paris in two hours and 20 minutes, v. seven hours for standard jets. Transportation Secretary Alan Boyd estimated a minimum sale of 300 aircraft under the SST program. Boeing President William M. Allen anticipates that the plane will be flying by 1971, about the same time that its slower, trans-Atlantic competitors go into service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aviation: SSTupendous | 5/5/1967 | See Source »

...Degas bronze horse pranced off for a record price of $51,800. A Chagall picture (circa 1917) brought $84,000, a new record for him. All in all, Sotheby's knocked down for $2,962,960, 87 works of art, a record for any one-day sale of impressionists and modern masters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Market: Price of a Picasso | 5/5/1967 | See Source »

...parents of most Challenge participants. Nevertheless, Challenge held a well-attended meeting for eight grade students and their parents at which a Cambridge school official spoke about the choice between going to Ridge Tech or Cambridge Latin for high school. And last Sunday several mothers ran a profitable bake sale, to raise money for the Challenge library...

Author: By Robert C. Pozen, | Title: Challenge Changes, But Flexibility Stays PBH Asks More of Its Teachers And Reaches for Underachievers | 4/29/1967 | See Source »

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