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...paternalistic Upjohn Co. of Kalamazoo, Mich., the most notable in-group is the in-laws. Since 1936 Upjohn has been run by Chairman Donald Gilmore, 66, who married the daughter of Founder W. E. Upjohn. (Since Upjohn was married to Gilmore's widowed mother, Gilmore's wife is also his stepsister.) Last week, with his Jan. 1 retirement approaching, Gilmore named his own quietly able son-in-law, Ray Theodore Parfet Jr., 39, as the company's president and chief executive officer. Despite corporate inbreeding, Upjohn has prospered, is now one of the nation...
Last week an enterprising young man named Barry Stuart, of Kalamazoo. Mich., was showing off the pilot model of a brand-new electric family car. Designed to sell for around $1,600, the Stuart is a boxy but commodious fiber-glass creation driven by a 4-h.p. motor, will hold two adults, two kids, and lots of groceries. It will go 40 miles at a safe-and-sane 35 m.p.h. on its small boat-trailer-size wheels, and its eight 6-volt batteries may be recharged overnight simply by plugging the whole thing into the garage socket. The cost...
20th Century City. Architect Gruen, famed for spacious shopping centers (Eastland in Detroit) and a well-publicized zeal for turning downtown areas into car-free malls (Kalamazoo, Mich.), designed the slab-shaped buildings slim and high to take advantage of the island's Manhattan view and allow for landscaping. The lower buildings, varying in height and snaking along the island's length, would be topped with gardens and windbreaks for recreational facilities. The air-conditioned pedestrian concourse below would be sunlit (through glassed holes in the roof) and undulating to kill the monotony of long straight corridors...
...defeated 14 to 7. During the rest of week, the first six defeated North again, by 6 to 3 (Tuesday), by 8 to 1 (Wednesday) and 7 to (Thursday), Duke by 6 to 3 (Friday, the Country Club of Virginia by 9 to (Saturday). The second six posted wins Kalamazoo and Toledo...
...second unit, composed of Keith Martin. Dave Moore, Cal Pollen, Chris Clark, Adelman, John Roosevelt, and John Bradbury, will play Kalamazoo, Toledo, Clemson during the week...