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Mushroom Stem. In Goshen, Ind., Elkhart County Sheriff Woody Caton heard about a tornado on his police radio at home. He ran for his car and drove toward a trailer park directly in the twister's path. He got there just after the tornado passed over. "God, what a sight!" he reported. "It was an unbelievable mess. Ninety-two trailers had been completely leveled. Another dozen were upended. Trailers were ripped from their frames, squashed and twisted. Some were tossed onto the highway. Everyone I saw was covered with blood. There wasn't a thing left...
...Elkhart, Ind., is quite a town. It has 40,000 inhabitants - and 40 millionaires. It is the site of an early Indian battlefield, the musical-instrument capital of the U.S., the center of more mobile-home makers (50) than any other spot on earth. Elkhart also has a special relationship with - and dependence on - the upset stomachs, nervous headaches and run-down feelings of the nation. It is the home of Miles Laboratories, maker of two of the world's most popular household remedies, Alka-Seltzer and One-A-Day Brand vitamin capsules. The histories of Elkhart and Miles...
American Cyanamid Corp., Pearl River, N.Y., $1,000,000; G. D. Searle & Co., Chicago, $900,000; Miles Laboratories, Elkhart, Ind., $800,404; Smith, Kline & French Laboratories, Philadelphia, $603,500; Ciba Pharmaceutical Products, Inc., Summit...
...Squibb & Sons, N.Y.C., $450,000; Carter Products Inc., N.Y.C., $441,000; Parke-Davis & Co., Detroit, $417,540; Plough Inc., Memphis, $375,000; Johnson & Johnson, New Brunswick, N.J., $350,000; Burroughs, Wellcome & Co., Tuckahoe, N.Y., $329,058; Ames Co. Inc., Elkhart, Ind., $302,162; Baxter Laboratories Inc., Morton Grove, Ill., $208,078; Pitman-Moore Co., Indianapolis, $178,980; Kendall Co., Boston, $159,323; Richardson-Merrill, Greensboro, N.C., $155,000; Atlas Chemical Industry, Wilmington, $149,282; Sandoz Pharmaceuticals, Hanover, N.J., $137,260. Under...
...charge of foreign operations. Handsome and hardworking, he often arrives at the office at 6:30 a.m., likes to skip lunch and work until evening. He pilots his own helicopter, is a sports-car buff. Last year he built his own car, raced it in the Elkhart Lake, Wis. races (it broke down after 30 miles of the 100-mile race). ¶Edward H. Heinemann, 52, quit as vice-president in charge of Douglas Aircraft's European Division to become executive vice president at Summers Gyroscope, a major maker of guidance systems for missiles. As chief engineer at Douglas...