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Almost as arresting as the nirvana caterpillar was a weird, 12-ft. high representation of the cell, basic unit of life, presented by Kalamazoo's Upjohn Co. Its shell was a fantastic latticework of clear plastic tubes. Inside were equally ingenious, sausage-shaped plastic gadgets representing mitochondria and fat globules. There was also a gaudy red nucleus, like a gang of tortured octopuses outdoing Laocoön's serpents, with centrosomes that made it look as though it had just landed from outer space...
...with tablets of tolbutamide instead of insulin injections. Many have rejoiced at their new-found freedom from the need for daily needlework. Last week the Upjohn Co. (which markets the drug as Orinase) decided to lay on the line just what it will and will not do. To its Kalamazoo headquarters Upjohn invited 500 physicians to hear reports from Germany's Dr. Ernst Pfeiffer, one of the first investigators to use the drug, and from Chicago's Dr. Rachmiel Levine, one of the world's top researchers into the mysteries of sugar metabolism...
Unfair Warning. In Kalamazoo, Mich., John Carter and a friend were fined $25 each for hobbling orderly law enforcement, after police found that just before a radar check point they had posted signs reading "Speed Trap...
...Kalamazoo's Upjohn Co. was quick to announce that tests with its antidiabetes drug, tolbutamide (Orinase) continued encouraging, with minimal side effects...
...special train drawing bigger crowds than Adlai Stevenson had drawn along the same route a week earlier. They were warm crowds; newsmen could find no trace of "that anti-Nixon feeling." There were 2,200 at the railroad station in Lansing, 5,000 at Battle Creek, 2,500 at Kalamazoo (about twice the crowd Stevenson drew) and 2,000 at Niles. Across Lake Michigan, in Chicago's Loop, more than 200,000-the biggest crowd to greet a visitor there since General Douglas MacArthur came home in 1951-thronged State Street to hail the Vice President...