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...Hershel Jick analyzed the records of 25,000 patients admitted to 24 hospitals in 1972. The surprise finding, reported in the British medical journal the Lancet, is that women aged 50 or over who take certain types of medication to relieve mild cases of high blood pressure run a threefold increased risk of developing breast cancer...
Radio Comics. The St. Louis Argus, a well-established black weekly, has ventured beyond black-oriented coverage and discovered a new audience in white neighborhoods. Circulation has tripled, to 100,000, and ad revenue is up 60%. An eleven-paper chain of suburban weeklies, reporting a threefold increase in ad income, has started to publish twice a week. CBS TV affiliate KMOX has expanded news coverage by 30 minutes at noon. KMOX radio has beefed up its news staff with a dozen out-of-work newsmen and offers Stan Musial reading the comic strips on its a.m. report...
Beyond his attempts to implicate the President in the coverup, the assured and incisive McCord repeatedly asserted that former Attorney General John Mitchell had helped plan, approve and supervise a threefold campaign of political intrigue: electronic bugging, clandestine photography and political espionage. Again McCord's information came from others, mainly Hunt and Liddy, and thus was hearsay...
...proposed rules requiring that tobacco companies warnings both on cigarette packages and in advertising. Under the direction of Abe Fortas, who represented Phillip Morris, Washington Lawyers for the big tobacco companies formed a solid coalition to help the tobacco lobby. Fortas's strategy for the Superlawyers was threefold: 1) Get the issue away from the FTC and into Congress, where the industry has more influence. 2) Placate the public with a "self-regulation code." 3) Accept a weak-worded health warning on packages. In return for this "concession," refuse to give up advertising, especially...
...electronics (notably Siemens) and automobiles (notably BMW, with new headquarters that resemble a cluster of three engine cylinders). No business is hard-pressed, whether it be publishing (every seventh German book title is printed in Munich) or the clothing and fashion industries, where earnings have outstripped the beer business threefold...