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BEST CAPITALIST GIFT TO SOVIET WOMEN Tambrands, the New York-based makers of Tampax, agreed to manufacture the product as part of a joint venture with the Soviet Union in what will be that country's first tampon factory. The plant, near Kiev, is expected to produce as many as 150 million tampons a year...
...Harvard findings have already led the manufacturers of Playtex and Tampax tampons to withdraw products containing polyacrylate rayon from the market and replace them with safer, though somewhat less absorbent versions. Procter & Gamble's Rely tampons, the only type containing polyester foam, were discontinued in 1980, after they had been linked to dozens of cases of TSS (the incidence rate promptly dropped). Kass is hopeful that his research, which was sponsored by Tambrands (the maker of Tampax), will help manufacturers in developing new tampons that are both ultra-absorbent and safe...
...Olympic team, shines as the insecure, driven Tory. And Scott Glenn does equally well as their hard-assed coach who drams of leading a male team with which he wouldn't have to worry about "Lynn Swann getting pregnant or Rocky Bleier forgetting his tampax." It's only unfortunate that Towne didn't leave just this kind of chauvinist mentality in his fictitous locker room, rather letting it lead to a wimpy ending for an otherwise fine movie...
...rest and aspirin, or they have been labeled neurotics and offered tranquilizers. Says Psychiatrist-Endocrinologist Ronald Norris of Boston's Tufts University School of Medicine: "When there's no obvious injury, physicians tend not to be sympathetic." Neither is the public. According to a poll conducted for Tampax, 22% believe that menstrual pain is psychosomatic...
...retailing axiom that the company whose products command the most space on store shelves leads at the cash register, and giant P&G generally has more space than its rivals. The competitor that suffered most from P&G's push for Rely was Tampax, whose market share slid from 52% to 40% as Rely's grew. Playtex tampons, Kimberly-Clark's Kotex and Johnson & Johnson's o.b. also lost ground to Rely...