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...salaries, bonuses, and such benefits as the company-run country club for all employees (highest fee: $125 a year). By the time he is 40, the rising Du Pont executive may earn well over $25,000, enough to move to the farther-out suburbs, where the pond in the backyard is preferred to the swimming pool. To those at home base, in fact, Du Pont is more than a place of work; it is a way of life in the most thoroughgoing company town in the U.S. The Du Ponts own Wilmington's biggest bank, its only playhouse...
...draws a certain respect-the rebels are really just savage hoodlums on the loose. At Kindu airport, waiting to be flown out, a weeping Belgian woman told how rebel youths had speared and knifed her husband and two sons to death before her eyes in the family's backyard. In the village of Kibombo, three elderly Belgian men were murdered with shotguns...
...Angeles Businessman Norton Simon plunges into his backyard swimming pool three times a day, but that is about the only way he ever plunges. Working from a base that includes California's $400 million Hunt Foods & Industries and heavy investments in salad oil, matches, paint and publishing (McCall's), Simon plans his moves with the care and strategy of a Clausewitz. West Virginia's Wheeling Steel (1963 sales: $236 million) was surprised to find a few years back that Simon had quietly become one of its biggest stockholders, controlling 145,000 shares. Last week Norton Simon...
...community tanks from which metered home oil burners could draw directly as gas burners do. For its part, the gas industry is pushing a "total energy concept," in which pipelined gas will do everything from generate electricity to cool air and heat water. Gas companies are already demonstrating a backyard barbecue that is fired by natural gas. It includes, they insist, even the charcoal aroma...
...surprises for those who are familiar with Knath's Cape Cod scenery-the lilacs in his backyard, deer feeding in the pines, light-splashed docks and shacks. What is perennially surprising, though, is the freshness that pours through his black-framed mosaic hues. Through...