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...deemed an embarrassment by everyone except his loving mother (Sally Field), the boy discovers two things: he can run like a gale-force wind, and he will always love his neighbor Jenny (Robin Wright). He goes to war with one friend, a young black man (Mykelti Williamson) dreaming of shrimp boats, and comes home with another, career soldier Dan Taylor (Gary Sinise). And wherever he is, he bumps into famous people: George Wallace and Richard Nixon, J.F.K. and L.B.J., Elvis and John Lennon (all integrated onscreen with Hanks through ingenious special effects). Almost everyone Forrest knows dies. He survives, through...
...other documents obtained through the same court case, which involves leading cigarette maker brown and Williamson, say differently...
...memo by the general counsel of Brown and Williamson said the division was run by tobacco company attorneys interested in funding scholars and scientists whose research could cast doubt on finding s linking smoking and disease...
...tobacco industry, under increasing government fire over allegations that it manipulated the nicotine content of its products to hook smokers, took another big hit. FDA Commissioner David Kessler told a House health subcommittee that the Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. developed and grew a high-nicotine tobacco plant and used it in several of its brands. CEO Thomas Sandefur contended that cigarettes made using the plant did not contain more nicotine. Meanwhile, the Justice Department announced its own investigation of tobacco-industry practices -- including the question of whether tobacco executives misled Congress...
Food and Drug Administration chief David Kessler charged that a major tobacco firm secretly developed a high-nicotine tobacco and has started using it in its Richland, Viceroy and Raleigh brand cigarettes. Kessler told a congressional panel that Brown and Williamson Tobacco Co. had told its researchers to lie to the FDA about the secret tobacco, known as Y-1, which Kessler says was grown in Brazil and distributed throughout the U.S. last year. Two shipping invoices aside, the House had to take Kessler's word for it, as he chose to keep all sources confidential. Tobacco company officials...