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...century is mostly a story of dreams richly come true. The seed the Funk brothers developed yields 150 to 160 bushels of corn an acre. The Funk Prairie Home, once center of a 25,000-acre farm, is now a museum, and the seed company is a division of Ciba-Geigy. Land that McNulta bought for $150 an acre now hovers around $4,000 an acre, too much for anyone ever to start out farming there now, but not a bad price for to day's farmer/investor to use as a tax write-off. The Osage orange hedges, planted...
Also under FDA attack are several drugs used against high blood pressure and blood clotting, some diuretics and products containing synthetic hormones. Among the odds and ends that the FDA wants to see no more: Winthrop's Alevaire, for asthma; CIBA's Bradosol throat lozenges; Parke-Davis' Phemerol. a skin antiseptic; and Lever Bros.' Pepsodent Antiseptic Mouthwash...
...years as chief executive became known as "Mr. Mekong," was reassigned to Ceylon. U.N. executives felt that the chief should be non-American, particularly if the project is ultimately to draw the support of North Viet Nam. They selected Switzerland's Victor H. Umbricht, head of CIBA Ltd., the drug manufacturer...
...them all, and most of them get no farther than the family doctor's office. Dr. Martin, a family physician, told the American Academy of General Practice what he has found works best: a daily dose of three or four tablets of methylphenidate, trade-named Ritalin by the Ciba Pharmaceutical...
...garage of a $45,000 home in a Westchester County suburb, north of New York City. The items confiscated there included half a pail of capsules marked "SKF" (for Smith Kline & French, the makers of Dexedrine), a small barrel of counterfeit Seconals, paper bags containing yellow tablets imprinted "Ciba," bags of waterlogged, unidentified tablets, and a 110-lb. drum marked "Made in Italy" and containing a dubious white powder. Added together these items gave the FDA an unusually persuasive collection of evidence...