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...Japan. The book's basic message: the growth of Government control over business in the U.S. has been so rapid that almost no one in either the private sector or politics knows how to cope with it. The result: wasteful combat. Writes Irving Shapiro, vice chairman of E.I. duPont de Nemours & Co.: "For a long time the two [business and politics] have been circling around each other like gladiators in combat, blocking and parrying each other's moves...
Game five saw a 5-1 Islander romp and Clark Gillies pounding Dave Schultz into the Spectrum ice and forcing him to endure the humiliation of needing a teammate, Andre Dupont, to come to his rescue: back on Long Island, before a national television audience (those were days when the NHL had a contract with NBC), New York gave their fans a 2-1 Mother's Day gift and deadlocked the series at three games apiece...
...camps fiercer than in Dade County, which includes Miami and will select the most delegates, 188. The Kennedy side is led by Mike Abrams, who operates out of a public relations agency on Biscayne Boulevard. At a meeting of 400 workers in the grand ballroom of the Dupont Plaza Hotel, he announced that the Kennedy workers would wear "K" stickers on caucus day so that they can be identified and served Cokes as they wait in line. Joked he: "The other side will probably have caviar, but all of you bring 25 people and we will win." His fleet...
...become a respected and conservative expert on military affairs. Seventeen won their first elections or gained higher offices. These Include a gaggle of Governors: Tennessee's Lamar Alexander, California's Jerry Brown, West Virginia's Jay Rockefeller, Illinois' James Thompson and Delaware's Pierre DuPont IV. There was also a spate of new Senators: New Jersey's Bill Bradley, Michigan's Don Riegle, Missouri's John Danforth, Pennsylvania's John Heinz III, Indiana's Richard Lugar and Maryland's Paul Sarbanes. Congressman Andrew Young was made U.N. ambassador...
...followed every member of the class. One died in 1965 while fighting in South Vietnam. Another had a heart seizure in 1974 and went into a coma until mid-1976. When he awoke, his wife had divorced him, and his business had collapsed. A member of the DuPont family in the Class of '54 filed the largest personal bankruptcy claim in United States history in 1971 and is now in the joke-writing business...