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...reaches the mandatory retirement age of 65 next April. Senior Vice President Irving S. Shapiro, who moved up to the new position of vice chairman of the board, is now officially No. 2 in the Du Pont hierarchy, and heir to the chief executive's job. Edward R. Kane, another senior vice president, was appointed president, and will provide the other part of a two-man top management team after McCoy leaves...
...colleague describes Shapiro and Kane as "a finely matched pair of big guns." But they work with sharply contrasting styles. Upon announcement of their promotions, Shapiro uncorked a bottle of champagne; Kane looked for a tennis game...
...Kane, 54, earned a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from M.l.T. in 1943, joined Du Pont the same year, and rose through the company's textile branches. Shapiro, 57, is a courtly lawyer. He will become the first chief of Du Pont who is neither a chemist nor engineer, and has not spent his full career with the company...
...live in a limbo of both legal and personal uncertainties. Last week a salute to veterans was held at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas. Such public celebrations serve only to intensify the anguish of M.I.A.wives, and some stayed away. One such wife, interviewed by TIME'S Joseph J Kane, is Peggie Duggan of El Paso...
Demands for permission to live with families, equal pay for equal work, employment security and rights to live in urban areas were denied. John Kane-Berman of the South African Institute for Race Relations remarked sadly, "The worst features of the old system are still there: the compounds, the low wages and the separation of families...