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Into Europe. None seem called for. Profits may not be as high as management might like, but I.C.I., the world's second largest chemical manufacturer (after Du Pont), has revitalized itself in the face of increasing competition and falling world prices in key chemicals. Under Chambers, an economist, the company brought in a U.S. management-consultant firm to streamline its organization, moved more vigorously into plastics and synthetic fibers, expanded research in such products as weed killers, antimalarial drugs and fertilizers. Chambers also prodded I.C.I.'s eight product divisions and 257 subsidiaries into becoming more aggressive in staking...
...more lasting fame: Marie Duplessis was the prototype for the heroines of Dumas' La Dame aux camelias and La Traviata; Blanche d'Antigny was transformed by Zola into Nana and Apollonie Sabatier was the real-life la Muse et la Madone of Baudelaire's Les Flews du nuil. If these coquettes shared a single trait, it was by no means beauty but an indomitable will to succeed and the ability to overcome natural handicaps. A practical sort was Blanche d'Antigny. An inordinately heavy sleeper, she found early in her career that a chance admirer...
Claude-Nicolas Ledoux (1736-1806), a protégé of Madame du Barry's who was appointed one of Louis XV's official architects in 1773, designed a spherical county ranger's house, 50 royal toll houses and observation posts, and a workers city for the state-owned saltworks of the Franche-Comté. The French Revolution intervened before any of his projects were built; but his company towns have long since been translated into reality...
...York, where antidraft riots during the Civil War were the most savage in the nation's history, students attempted a replay at Brooklyn College. Leaders of the leftist Students for a Democratic Society and the Communist-lining W.E.B. Du Bois clubs drummed up 1,000 screaming students (total enrollment: 25,000) to protest not only the presence on campus of two Navy recruiting officers but also the refusal of the college administration to allow a rival group to set up a non-recruiting table across from the Navy desk. Soon student fists and police clubs were flailing...
...Most chemical companies reported a disappointing quarter. Du Pont, with a 1% decrease in sales to $763 million and an 18% decline in earnings to $74,330,000, blamed the downturn primarily on "sluggishness in the civilian sector of the economy." Union Carbide, anticipating lower sales and earnings also, attributed the drop to a major expansion program now under...