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Over the past nerve-rattling decade, millions of patients round the world have shooed the blues or relieved tension by swallowing Librium and Valium, the tranquilizers that are among the biggest-selling prescription drugs ever marketed. Every little capsule adds to the billions of dollars in sales and untold millions in profits reaped by their discoverer: Switzerland's secretive F. Hoffmann-La Roche & Co., which may well be the world's largest seller of drugs (estimated volume: $1.6 billion per year). That phenomenal success has now embroiled Roche in a worldwide dispute that has driven its British prices...
...against drugs and contraband? A Veterans Administration nurse laboring to restore the nation's Viet Nam wounded to health? The Forest Service fire fighter breathing smoke in Oregon and California at this very hour? A cancer researcher? The FDA technician whose revelations on thalidomide saved untold numbers of unborn babies from hideous disfigurement? The clerk who dispatches a Social Security payment to a senior citizen in your own family? Which of these bureaucrats would you trim from the federal payroll...
...Russians even ripped up many of the railroad tracks and took them away too. While the U.S. poured Marshall Plan money into the West, the Russians siphoned off any spare cash from the East. All told, the East Germans paid Moscow an estimated $15 billion in direct reparations and untold amounts under extortionist trade agreements. When the Russians were finished the East Germans were left with only "Walter Ulbricht and some potatoes," as one East German bitterly puts...
...pocket." It took, as it happened, just $350, or $50 more a month than the New York Giants were offering Aaron at the time. That paltry sum, recalls Aaron, "was the only thing that kept Willie Mays and me from being teammates." And the Giants from winning untold World Series...
...book Marilyn: An Untold Story, which will be published in August, is not a biography. It is a memoir, with completely new material, written by someone who knew Miss Monroe personally for the last seven years of her life. It is undeserving of the "also" treatment you gave it in your story...