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Divorced. William du Pont Jr., 67, Maryland country squire, great-great-grandson of Eleuthère Irénée du Pont and one of ten of his descendants on the board of the family chemicals empire; by Margaret Osborne du Pont, 43, three times (1948-50) U.S. Women's singles tennis champion, 13 times winner in the doubles; on grounds of mental cruelty; after 16 years of marriage, one son; in Las Vegas...
Pierre's son Eleuthère Irénée was the first business brains of the family. He saw the need for good black powder for the huntsmen and the frontiersmen of the young and struggling U.S., and in 1802 set up his factory on the Brandywine; later he added a woolen mill. From those modest beginnings sprang the $3.3 billion empire that today spans much of the world with 117 factories employing 93,000 workers turning out 1,200 products. It has become the greatest chemical company in the world's history, a company that...
Among the living was his enceinte fian cee, Irène Jodart. "I shall marry him anyway!" proclaimed Ir...
...Your [Oct. 4] article on Litton's "Tex" Thornton certainly symbolized the good that evolves from a government ir which men have the freedom to pursue new ideas. The story helped to impress upon me the fact that there are opportunities available in this country to all who wish to make the effort...
...gathering also presented an ir resistible opportunity to U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk, who gathered up his position papers and 33 aides, and shifted his headquarters from Foggy Bottom to the U.S. mission building, across from the U.N., for nine days of talks with some 70 visiting statesmen...