Word: duponts
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...personnel record from the Louisville, Kentucky, school system, where Wigand now teaches science and Japanese. The investigators may have thought they would turn Wigand's fellow educators against him. They were wrong. "Not all of us agree with what [Wigand] is doing," says Barbara Fendley, who supervises Wigand at DuPont Manual High School and is married to a tobacco farmer. "But we all support his right to do what he thinks is right. We're bigger than Brown & Williamson...
Merrill spoke to about to 700 Dole supporters in a "Get Out the Vote" rally at Exeter Area High School in Exeter Sunday. Here Dole celebrated the endorsements of Gramm, baseball great Ted Williams, and former Deleware gov. Pierre "Pete" DuPont...
...name was DuPont they never would have done this to me, but there is a flagrant racist aspect to this," he said...
...wrestling team that Dupont sponsored (Team Foxcatcher) continued to live at his estate and train for the Olympics. They obviously wanted to stay with DuPont in order to take advantage of his generosity, which included free use of his athletic facilities, free housing, even ample stipends. DuPont's madness and violent tendencies were clearly worsening--he had threatened wrestlers with guns before the alleged shooting. But they probably wanted to continue to milk his benevolence at least until the summer Olympics. These wrestlers probably put too much stock in the old maxim, "don't look a gift horse...
Maybe we will never really know what drove DuPont to dementia or why he finally snapped. But it's clear that even a huge inheritance can't buy sanity. In fact, DuPont's wealth may have contributed to his problems. DuPont's bankroll gave him the freedom and the resources to concentrate on cultivating his odd obsessions...