Wonder Drug Makers Called Price Riggers
Three major drug makers and three executives face federal indictments on price rigging and monopoly charges. Pfizer American Cyanamid Bristol-Myers deny the claims as indictments allege market control of key antibiotics totaling $250 million in 1959 retail sales. Co conspirators Olin Mathieson and Uposha named though not defendants.
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New York
Chas. Pfizer & Co., Inc
John E. McKeen
American Cyanamid Co
Wilbur G. Malcolm
Bristol-Myers Co
Frederic N. Schwartz
U.S. Patent Office
Olin Mathieson Chemical Corp
E. R. Squibb & Sons
Uposha Co
Kalamazoo, Mich
Priest brings Radio Sutatenza to rural Colombia
Fourteen years after Fr. Jose Joaquin Salcedo arrived in Sutatenza with a homemade transmitter and three used radios, he founded Radio Sutatenza School of the Air to educate rural Colombians. The program, now spanning all rural areas and 15 Latin American countries, grew after villagers asked for earlier classes to suit their work schedule.
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Bogota
Colombia
Sutatenza
Jose Joaquin Salcedo
Radio
School of the
Father Salcedo
Radio Sutatenza
Met Opera Season Is Called Off
New York Metropolitan Opera Association declares the 1961-62 season no longer possible after breaking off negotiations with the orchestra union and sending layoff notices to more than 600 employees. The union and labor commissioner question the Met’s good faith in resuming talks following the Aug. 7 cancellation announcement.
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New York
Metropolitan Opera Association
Met
Musicians Union
Opera
Berlin Refugee Camp Near Ghost Town
AP reports Marienfelde refugee camp in West Berlin, once a major gateway from East to West, may become a ghost town as thousands pass through and the crackdown tightens. By next week the camp is expected to be largely emptied with 500 to 600 late arrivals the remaining few.
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Berlin
Marienfelde
Berlins
West Berlin
US Eyes West German Election Drive
US officials hope West German politicians can navigate the final month of their national election campaign without worsening the Berlin crisis. Votes are on Sept 17 choosing Adenauer or Brandt. Washington urges a sober, bipartisan approach while stressing Western unity against the Soviet Union.
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Washington
U. S
Berlin
Konrad Adenauer
Christian Democrat
Willy Brandt
Social Dem
Soviet Union
Communists Reinforce Wire Barricades With Brick Wall
Explosions damaged the Air Reduction Sales Co. plant at Acton Massachusetts injuring no workers, with early estimates of $5 million in plant damage. East Berlin authorities began building a brick wall inside the border to reinforce barbed wire barriers as West Berlin and Western allies consider steps in the Berlin crisis.
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Adenauer
Acton
Mass
Air Reduction Sales Co
Air Reduction Inc
New York
Berlin
East Germany
East Berlin
West Berlin
Konrad Adenauer
Bonn
West Germany
No Man's Land
Judge Doesn’t Furnish Ride After Speeding Case
Thomas A. Watson of Etna drove a pulp wood truck to Farmington for a speeding summons. Municipal Court Judge Benjamin Butler fined him 50 dollars and suspended his license for 10 days. Watson left court baffled as the truck vanished from the court parking lot.
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Farmington
Thomas A. Watson
Etna
Benjamin Butler
Watson
Butler
Foes Of School Bus Act Face Hard Task
AUGUSTA AP The reform move for a referendum on the parochial school bus enabling act faces a tough battle. Rep Ernest D Smith says clergy opposition hampers petitions and notes about 30 000 signatures gathered with under a month left. He warns they must average 500 signatures daily to meet the 41 722 voter threshold by September 15 otherwise the measure becomes law September 16. Smith stresses no bias against Catholics but opposes public support for private schools.
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Augusta
Ernest D. Smith
R-Strong
Maine
Associated Press
Smith
Maine Citizens” Group
Ocal
Kennebec County
Cuban crew seeks asylum after vessel diverts to Norfolk
Ten crewmen of the Cuban cargo ship Bahia de Nipe including the captain sought political asylum in the United States after diverting to Lynnhaven Roads near Norfolk. The ship remained anchored as Coast Guard cutter took the defectors to Norfolk Naval Station for interrogation. The Swiss government was advised and could decide on refugee status. The vessel, loaded with raw sugar, was en route from Cuba to a Russian port and may have called at Soviet ports recently. No State Department comment was available.
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Norfolk, Va
United States
Lynnhaven Roads
Chesapeake Bay
Cuba
Coast Guard
Norfolk Naval Station
5Th Naval District
U.S
Havana
Bahia de Nipe
Lynnhaven
Russia
Washington
State Department
Johnson to reassure West Germans with Berlin mission
Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson plans a weekend trip to Berlin and Bonn at President Kennedy’s request to reassure West Germans of firm U.S. support amid the crisis with Russia. Consideration of dispatching more U.S., British and French troops to West Berlin is reported, with final decisions pending Kennedy, Macmillan, and de Gaulle. Johnson will meet Mayor Willy Brandt and Chancellor Adenauer as the Berlin issue looms in the campaign.
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Berlin
Moscow
Brandt
Aden_auer
Washington
Bonn
Adenauer
West Berlin
Willy Brandt
London
United States
Britain
France
Lyndon B. Johnson
Kennedy
Russia
Benin
State Department
Harold Macmillan
Charles de Gaulle
Johnson
Konrad Adenauer
Two Added To Faculty At Thornton
Thornton academy announces two new teachers. Miss Germaine Bergeron of Biddeford will teach French this year after years as vice-principal at Biddeford High. Randalite of Portland, UMaine graduate, will teach social studies and coach freshmen football. White replaces Karavetsos who leaves to pursue graduate studies on a Harvard fellowship.
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Thornton Academ
Robert Bowie
Germaine Bergeron
Biddeford
Bowie
Miss Bergeron
Randalite
Portland
University _ of Maine
White
Michael Karavetsos
Harvard University
Navy plans expansion of operating fleet to 861 ships
The Navy announced a plan to add 42 ships including a new attack carrier to its operating fleet by next summer. The buildup aims to raise fleet size from 819 to 861 by June 30, 1962, with 382 war ships and 479 support vessels. The plan uses three methods: retaining in-service ships, reactivating mothballed vessels, and delivering new ships.
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Washington
Navy
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