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...faceoff in the Boston zone, MacLeish snatched the puck from Greg Sheppard and poked it to Andre Dupont just inside the Boston blue line. Dupont got off a drive that glanced off MacLeish's stick and hopped over the stick of Boston goalie Gilles Gilbert into...
Baker ridiculed television advertisements that get us to "walk around smelling like ambulatory branches of the DuPont Corporation" and books on the science of sex, which reassure us that "the most complex of human emotions is no more difficult than installing a new set of Venetian blinds...
...scenery passes less quickly. A five-story apartment building looks somber with its dirtencrusted windows and greasy Venetian blinds. Opposite, a group of tenement houses stand in the glare of DuPont's smoke and flames. The passengers waiting on the platform of Philadelphia's Thirtieth Street Station look like molish members of a dust-filled underworld. The train pulls out into a complex of electric power lines, intricately crossing tracks, and still freight cars. It then runs parallel to a river, crosses over, and continues through a residential area. To the right, a small rowboat drifts lazily on a pond...
...Because duPont Glore Forgan's only data-processing customer is Walston, Perot's original Wall Street possession will probably soon be dissolved as well. Walston is trying to find other brokerage firms to assume the leases on its branch offices and its more than $350,000-a-month Lower Manhattan headquarters. So far, it has come up with takers for at least 71 offices. Many of Walston's 4,000 employees will probably be retained by the new managements; customers, if they wish to, can pick up their holdings at Walston and follow their old broker...
...investor mistrust of the stock market and make it harder for other brokerages to sell the industry's future to bright young recruits. Moreover, some securities men fear that a Walston disappearance may be merely the first in a new series of big shutdowns. "The combination of the duPont situation and the bad market has given everybody the jitters," says Richard Jenrette, chairman of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette. "There will probably be more firms to go, and I hope they'll go in as orderly a way as Walston...