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From Times Staff and Wire Reports

Upjohn Names Acting CEO: Ley Smith has been appointed acting chief executive officer of Upjohn Co. following the death of Chairman and Chief Executive Theodore Cooper. Cooper, who in January was diagnosed with bone marrow cancer, died Thursday. He was 64 and had been Upjohn’s chairman since 1987. Smith, 58, the pharmaceutical company’s president and chief operating officer, joined Upjohn as a salesman in 1958.

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