Word: du
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SPECIAL (CBS, 10-11 a.m.). Metropolitan Stars Giorgio Tozzi, Charles Anthony and Helen Vanni sing Berlioz' L'Enfance Du Christ with the CBS Symphony Orchestra...
Better Living Sir: Your cover about the fascinating firm of Du Pont [Nov. 27] provided an enlightening picture of a famous name in one of the most baffling areas of modern science and industry. Aside from wishing the company success in making Methuselahs of us all, I hope that it enters the pharmaceutical field in the traditional spirit of hot price competition against those firms that were recently collecting scandalous profits from the sale of miracle drugs...
...Du Pont is far ahead of its competitors, but not as far as is suggested by some of the sales figures in your story. The sales of Union Carbide in 1963 were $1.7 billion, of Monsanto $1.2 billion. This year will find five companies in the billion-dollar class, with Allied and Dow also passing this milestone...
Gbenye and his rebel ministers had fled Stanleyville, and with them went more than 1,500 Ibs. of gold (valued at nearly $800,000) from the Kilo-Moto Mines and more than $6,000,000 from the vaults of the Banque du Congo. But many Simbas had stayed behind sniping at anyone who moved, and the mopping up was bloody...
...canvas lay in a box of junk in an Alexandria, Va., secondhand store. But when Christine du Tant, wife of a U.S. Senate aide, unrolled it, she recognized the handsome young man it portrayed and bought it for $3. A curator of the Smithsonian Institution agreed with her: the small (10 in. by 14 in.) oil by an unknown artist is indeed of the young Abraham Lincoln, painted around 1840, and thus the earliest-known likeness of the future President. He had just turned 30 at the time and was a frontier legislator and lawyer in the midst...