Word: du
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though its mines provided the uranium for the Nagasaki and Hiroshima A-bombs, the durable giant known as the Union Minière du Haut-Katanga had never been so preoccupied with explosives as it was last week. Outside the southern Katanga town of Kolwezi, unruly "gendarmes" in the service of Katanga's President Moise Tshombe had wired demolition charges to two huge Union Minière power dams and threatened to push the plunger...
...David Wolper documentary on the Du Pont Show of the Week, made Hollywood war movies look like so much stagecraft...
Paint & Precedent. The other suit involved Du Pont and American Potash & Chemical Corp.. both of which have undertaken to produce titanium dioxide for paint pigments in new California plants. Recently, after helping design the Du Pont plant, Chemical Engineer Donald E. Hirsch, 38, a Du Pont employee for twelve years, was hired away by American Potash, whose plant is not yet completed. Du Pont pleaded that it had spent $15 million developing the process, and argued that Hirsch could not work for a competitor without giving away Du Pont secrets. American Potash insisted it had already acquired the knowledge...
...both the Du Pont and Goodrich suits, the judges issued temporary restraining orders, then settled back to probe precedent before making final decisions. Many decisions seem to favor the complaining companies. In one 1944 case a New York court allowed a Fairchild aircraft vice president to go to work elsewhere but enjoined him for five years from any activity remotely linked to a then-secret Fairchild process for cooling aircraft engines. The problem of trade secrets has lately become more acute: much of today's corporate research is done under Government contract and hence cannot be patented. Often...
...French, of course, adored all this, and certainly there is something to be said for such a powerfully perfumed little fleur du mat. It is lovely to look at-Cameraman Henri Decaë laves his park and his pond and his wandering darlings in a Proustian pallor of times lost. It is formidably well-played-Kruger finely suggests both Cupid and psycho, and Gozzi is a born actress with big brown eyes and a pretty little finger to wrap fathers around. And it is composed with surprising finesse-Director Serge Bourguignon, who at 31 had never before made a full...