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...keep out of higher tax brackets, but many an industrialist feels that the up-to-87% bite out of top management salaries is harmful. "The effectiveness of the money incentive is being eroded by the tax rates in the upper brackets," said Crawford H. Greenewalt, president of E. I. duPont de Nemours & Co.; "there are signs among the younger men that promotion is a little less attractive than it used to be ... When a promising young business executive decides that he won't try for the $64,000 question, when he decides that he isn't interested...
...about 10,000 house organs aimed at strengthening ties-and improving communications-between worker and employer. The industrial publications range from crudely mimeographed sheets in small plants to handsome, slick-paper magazines by big corporations, such as General Motors' LiFE-size G.M. Folks (circ. 500,000), and the DuPont Magazine...
...scholars are at loggerheads over the extent to which the Essene documents affect traditional Christianity. Says Dupont-Sommer, a former Roman Catholic priest: "All the problems relative to primitive Christianity henceforth find themselves placed in a new light, which forces us to reconsider them completely." Christ, he feels, is a prototype, "in many respects an astonishing reincarnation" of the Essene Teacher of Righteousness. This implies that Jesus might have found in Essene thinking a role readymade for him. But Dupont-Sommer emphasizes that...
Uniqueness of Christ. Dr. Cross finds many of Dupont-Sommer's views "flamboyant," his theses "methodologically unsound," i.e., Cross thinks the French scholar may have been misled by later Christian interpolations in some Essene documents. Moreover, Presbyterian Cross believes that Dupont-Sommer often bases his arguments on mere word play. There is no proof in the scrolls, says Cross, that the Teacher of Righteousness was considered a Messiah or that he was martyred. Cross concedes the similarity between the teachings of the Essenes and early Christianity, but holds that this in no way invalidates Christian teaching or puts...
Heartbreak Ridge. The infantryman's ordeal in Korea, as experienced by a green French lieutenant and sharply recorded by Director Jacques Dupont (TIME...