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...planned acquisition of Conoco is a daring departure. The 179-year-old firm, which started as a gunpowder business on the banks of Delaware's Brandy wine Creek, now sells everything from synthetic fibers and insecticides to cookware coatings and auto paints. But for the company that invented nylon and Teflon, growth has come mainly from in-house research and innovation rather than conglomerate building. The addition of Conoco would more than double Du Pont's size, and some Wall Street analysts fear that the new colossus would lose some technological drive. Says John Henry of E.F. Hutton...
Even for a rainy Tuesday the courtyard seems empty. In one corner of the square, a cluster of boys with slicked-back hair and hair nets jostle one another. A black boy wanders by, a nylon stocking pulled over his head. The lunch bell summons everyone indoors. Only two people remain outside: the visitor and the longhaired boy who has the word LOVE tattooed in bold, blue letters across the fingers of his right hand. He asks: "Are you a new security guard or something...
...predictable. It even takes on a less serious air. A group of youngsters run up to Royko and toss him something. "We found it! We found it! We found the guy's weiner!" In another scene, the wide of a recently-sucked-in C.P.A. describes his attire: "Brown nylon executive type socks--you know, the kind that go up high so if you cross your legs you can't see flesh." "And," she adds. "An aquamarine t-shirt with the bright red words, 'Need Gas? Eat some beans...
...home well or you don't. But with hazardous waste, you become acutely aware of every sneeze, every rash. You wonder about being well 20 years from now." Chatting with fire fighters near a blazing Elizabeth, N.J., dump site at 3 a.m., Stoler glanced down to see his nylon sneakers "being eaten by chemicals in the soil. They were literally dissolving off my feet...
...outright barter. Waiting time to buy a Polish-built Fiat can be shortened from four years to a few weeks if payment is made in dollars rather than zloty. The plumber, whose services are normally difficult to obtain, comes immediately if the bill is paid with a pair of nylon hosiery. Hard-to-get meats like veal are available, at six times the official price; wealthy nightclub patrons in Warsaw are occasionally pounced on by flashers who pull open their coats to offer for sale not their bodies but hunks of fresh meat...