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...chief executive, Copeland succeeds Crawford Hallock Greenewalt, 60, the son-in-law of onetime President Irénéé du Pont; Greenewalt moves up to chairman of the board after 14 years as president. While Greenewalt will "guide policy decisions," Du Font's operations will be run by Copeland, who joined the family firm shortly after graduating from Harvard (B.S. in engineering, '28) and, save for a four-month layoff during the Depression, has been with it ever since. The change, Du Pont executives say, was long scheduled, but hinged on the retirement of Walter S. Carpenter...
...FONT'S second-quarter sales of $631 million were the highest in its history, and its earnings rose to $2.52 per share, v. $2.15 last year. Du Pont is starting a $50 million program to expand its nylon plants...
Topping off a week that, on the face of it. should have put Wall Street in a rosy glow was mounting evidence that corporate profits had set a first-quarter record in 1962. From corporations across the whole spectrum of industry came glittering reports. Du Font's first-quarter earnings were a record $2.23 a share v. $1.85 last year; Republic Steel's were 99? v. 37?. U.S. Rubber's 75? v. 68?. Standard Oil of California...
Simple Life. Thus even in his huge temple, where a mural depicts the River Jordan flowing into the baptismal font. Dr. Billington maintains a simple approach to God and to the world. He works tirelessly for a salary of $145 a week-tithes more than a full share. When church officers tried to press a Cadillac upon him, he refused it with the explanation: "Sure, you gave it to me," he said, "but how will I ever get such a story across to Akron's tire builders? I'll continue to drive that Olds or Buick...
Action poets delight most of all in action. On the page their poetry often appears to have been composed by the timely explosion of a type font, and sometimes it reads that way too. Like the Dadaists of the '20s, they like multiple exclamarks ("Gesture! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !") and capital letters...