Word: carr
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Came in from the Cold, Le Carré (1 last week...
...PONTS OF DELAWARE by William H. A. Carr. 368 pages. Dodd, Mead...
...This multiple biography by William Carr, longtime New York Post reporter, conscientiously chronicles all this progress: the Powder Trust, the antitrust suits, the intra-clan squabbles over control of the business, the rise and fall of family leaders. It also flickers upon Du Pont oddballs, heroes and politicians...
...Author Carr plainly started with the notion that any clan with a history and a fortune like the Du Ponts deserves a biography. He is not the first to attempt it (three more or less forgettable Du Pont chronicles have been turned out in the last 30 years), but he is the first to get full family cooperation. While Carr produces nothing that is startlingly perceptive or especially exciting, he does deserve credit for pursuing the rocky, incredible history of the dynasty with scrupulous objectivity. The Du Ponts are all there: warts, splendor...
Texans, predictably, mounted a strenuous counterattack. Governor John Connally called Belli's tirade against Dallas "reprehensible." Attorney General Waggoner Carr told University of Texas law students that Belli's behavior "should shock all of our bar members from coast to coast...