Word: competitors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plant in Old Hickory, Tenn., and Du Pont is also building a factory in Belgium to produce Corfam for the European market. Barbed-wire fences and 24-hour guards at Old Hickory testify to Du Pont's unwillingness to share its hard-won secrets with a dozen competitors that are trying to crack the synthetic-leather market. Not even the shoemakers have been allowed inside the production area, and a sign at Old Hickory announces: "Our competitor is a nice fellow-smart too-so let him figure his own way." One reason for Du Pont's anxiety: computers...
...been the rumble of liquid-fueled boosters blasting spacecraft into orbit, the sharper roar of solid-fuel military missiles climbing into their long trajectories, and the continuing, wordy battles between the promoters of each type. Now, back of the racket, can be heard the insistent voice of still another competitor in the rocketry race-the hybrid that manufactures its power by combining liquid oxidant with solid fuel. Detractors may scoff that the hybrid combines all the dangers and difficulties of both solids and liquids. Its champions are confident that it is better than either. "Within about one year," says Douglas...
Compulsive Competitor. Though it seeks to acquire products and markets from other companies, 3M is more interested in inventing its own. It supports 2,500 scientists and technicians in 44 laboratories, and each scientist can spend at least 15% of his time puttering on any project that he wishes. "If we are going to live within our philosophy," says Dr. Walton, "we have to allow for a certain degree of experimenting, authorized or not, as long as the experimenters don't blow the place up." The company gets more bright ideas than bangs. One of the most profitable currently...
Dueling Rommel. Patton saw his life as one long joust with the world. In peacetime, he trained himself for war as a medieval knight training for battle. He was a ferocious competitor in the pentathlon, in which he finished fifth in the 1912 Olympics, and polo, in which he was a seven-goal player. In his last year at West Point, he thrust his head into the line of fire during a sharpshooting exercise. "I just wanted to see how afraid I'd be," he explained, "and to train myself not to be." When war came, Patton...
...sophomores who will undoubtedly see a great deal of action are Charlie Njoku (cousin of Harvard soccer great Chris Ohiri), and sophomore Jim Saltonstall, a fiery competitor who scored a goal against Tufts...