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...German chemical firm Bayer paid $1 billion to regain the American rights to its name by buying the North American over-the-counter medicine business of Sterling Winthrop. A Bayer chemist, Felix Hoffman, developed the company's production process for its most famous product, aspirin, in 1893. Bayer lost its American patents and copyrights in 1918, when the U.S. government seized the firm's assets following World...
...number of students dropped to 202 last year when Dillon Professor of the Civilization of France Stanley Hoffman and Assistant Professor of Government J. Lawrence Broz co-taught the course...
...Zone had a reason to move quickly. A rival film on the same subject, Outbreak, directed by Wolfgang Petersen (In the Line of Fire) and starring Dustin Hoffman and Rene Russo, was also rushing toward a start date. Producer Arnold Kopelson had initiated the project at Warner Bros. after failing in his bid for the rights to Hot Zone. He got a script from Robert Roy Pool and Dr. Laurence Dworet, an internist. While visiting an Army virus center, the Outbreak screenwriters ran into Obst and Preston; it was like a cold war chance meeting...
...Graduate" stars Dustin Hoffman as the young recent college graduate who has an affair with the older, seductive Mrs. Robinson played by Anne Bancroft. This is a brilliant coming-of-age comedy about the changes sex can have for a morally upstanding, soon-to-be-guided-into-the-corporate-world-by-his- father young man. Plastics are not where he wants to be. He'd rather be wrapped in the arms of his mother's best friend who seduces him during his mother's wake. Torn between two lovers, the other being Mrs. Robinson's daughter, Elaine, Hoffman's character...
...Hoffman shows the immense amount of talent we would later see come to full bloom during '60;s classics like "Midnight Cowboy." This is a must-see for young viewers who are approaching the "adult" world after college. And any of fans of Simon and Garfunkel should not miss the their then-young music which makes up the soundtrack...