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...from products more than ten years old, which is practically a century in that business. The line includes such venerable medicaments as Sloan's Liniment, Smith Brothers Cough Drops, Listerine, Rolaids, and Bromo-Seltzer. Warner-Lambert's newer directions are the result of a corporate turn-around wrought by a man who never ran a business before becoming its president eleven years ago: two-term (1947-54) New Jersey Governor Alfred Eastlack Driscoll...
...delivers its message by telephone, and rings in some crude but effective suspense from the mischief wrought by two nubile teen-agers (Movie Newcomers Andi Garrett and Sarah Lane). With Mom and Dad away on an overnight trip, Andi invites Sarah out to her remote country mansion to help baby-sit. Crank calls are the girls' favorite diversion. The usual ploy: "I saw what you did and I know who you are." It is a dubious icebreaker at best, but downright troublesome when addressed to an unstable suburbanite (John Ireland) who that very evening has carved up his wife...
...debated social issues of the '60s, but foreshadowed as well the present-day philosophy of a Supreme Court that has done more than any other in U.S. history to bolster the rights of the individual against "ignoble" government power. In so doing, the court in recent years has wrought a revolution in criminal justice...
...scions still keep the banners flying high. On a sunny day at Bailey's Beach, 15 Cushings can be seen at one time, flanked by Drexels, Auchin-closses and Van Alens. Neither high taxes, lack of servants, nor the Newport Jazz Festival can drive them out from behind their wrought-iron gates and brick walls...
...were not enough that the storms had wrought such suffering, people in cities and towns along the northern portion of the Mississippi River got ready for new troubles. Early last week the spring thaws from the north began sending countless tons of water hurtling down the river. Thousands of residents in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois and Iowa evacuated their homes as the river rose as much as 12 ft. above flood stage; in St. Paul it crested at 27 ft., in Minneapolis at 21 ft. Parts of the region already were under water as townspeople rushed to the riverbanks to help...