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...feel that they are not really welcomed by the old crowd. The game of "class spotting," a charade around the infinite variety of right or wrong in speech or dress, is being played in Britain more cruelly than ever. It is against this background of class distinction, paradoxically both keener and less meaningful, that Britain's aristocratic Prime Minister will have to make policy-and fight an election...
...Some keener competition is abuilding for Merrill Lynch. Francis I. du Pont, Wall Street's fastest growing brokerage house (92 branches), last week announced plans to acquire Chicago's A. C. Allyn & Co. (24 branches). The du Pont firm was set up in 1931 by Francis du Pont, a great-grandson of Eleuthère Iréneé du Pont, founder of the Du Pont chemical empire, and grew big by catering to Wilmington's richest carriage trade. Now headed by Francis' son, Edmond du Pont, 57, the firm long ago broadened its sights beyond...
...invested capital, compared with 6.7% a decade ago. While profit totals are running at record highs, the businessman is finding it harder to raise his percentage of profit on sales. Says Du Font's President Lammot du Pont Copeland, 58, a Harvard-educated scion of inherited wealth: "Keener competition may be good for the economy, but it takes its toll in profits...
...soaring ambition of radio astronomers. In the past, most cosmographical theories were concocted by mathematicians sitting in quiet rooms and struggling with streams of abstractions. They were safe from experimental check because optical telescopes could not see far enough into the depths of the universe. But radio telescopes are keener-sighted. They have located radio-galaxies that seem to be 7 billion light-years away. And their eyesight is bound to improve...
...Politics. Some of De Gaulle's keener barbs have been aimed at the politicians who resisted his return to power in 1958. "Since a politician never believes what he says," he once mused, "he is absolutely nonplussed when he is taken at his word." At a Gaullist rally in 1956, an orator demanded death for the leaders of the Fourth Republic, repeating for De Gaulle's benefit: "Mon general, we must kill all those asses." Nodded De Gaulle: "A vast program.'' After his election, when the President decided to fire some balky Cabinet ministers, Premier Michel...