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...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 Jr., 74, who wanted to stay on as chairman until the completion of Du Font's long and vain battle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Personnel: Du Pont Is His Middle Name | 8/31/1962 | See Source »

Last June. Msgr. Illich's Center for Intercultural Formation opened at Chula Vista with 68 students-about half laymen and half priests and nuns. Only 32 survived the rigors of the four-month. $750 course and are ready for assignment by their sponsoring agencies. The attrition of five and one-half hours daily of language drill, plus lectures and discussions that may last as late as 2 a.m., was only partly responsible for the high mortality; Illich and his staff deliberately make the students angry, start arguments, challenge cherished beliefs. "I hate Yankees!'' Illich may yell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Boot Camp for Urbanites | 10/27/1961 | See Source »

...determined that the rest of the world should not consider the four-month trial a "legal lynching by vengeful Jews." Prosecutor Hausner exhaustively reexamined every scrap of testimony Eichmann had offered in his defense. Hausner divided the Nazi extermination program into three stages: 1) throwing the Jews out of Germany. 2) concentrating them in Poland. 3) herding all of the Jews of Europe into death ovens. In each of these stages, Hausner insisted, "Eichmann fulfilled an executive task of the first importance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel: Trial's End | 8/18/1961 | See Source »

...sales are good seemed to be paying off last week. During the first part of December, in a slipping auto market, sales were only 1.7% above the 1959 rate. After President George Romney announced at midmonth that a $25 U.S. Savings Bond would go to car buyers during a four-month period for every 10% increase in sales over the preceding year, sales shot up, finished 15.9% over December 1959. Last week American Motors began sending out $25 bonds to 34,971 car buyers. Among the recipients: General Motors Corp., which had purchased one Rambler, presumably for testing purposes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Autos: Payoff | 1/13/1961 | See Source »

Successful Maneuvers. Last August Burke and his aides launched Operation Unitas, an unprecedented, four-month, South American antisub exercise. A U.S. task force centered around the sub Odax rendezvoused first with the Venezuelan and Colombian fleets in the Caribbean, then maneuvered with Ecuador's navy, turned south and linked up simultaneously with the Peruvian and Chilean navies. Finally, it conducted a four-nation maneuver with Argentine, Uruguayan and Brazilian ships. The operation's longest air patrol, 11 hr. and 15 min., was flown by a Brazilian Neptune, which circled so aggressively over its sub-contact area that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Americas: Watching for Sea Goblins | 1/2/1961 | See Source »

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