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Like so much else in Delaware, the Wilmington Morning News and the Evening Journal are owned by the Du Pont family. For years, the Du Ponts insisted on editorial docility. One editor found it wise to keep a Du Pont genealogical table next to his phone so that he could quickly establish who was complaining at any given moment. Creed Black, an editor who showed some independence, left in 1964 when a Du Pont public relations executive was installed above him. Said Black at the time: "I for one need no further evidence that the ownership wants the Morning News...
...once castigated the papers even more vehemently than Black, went back for another look recently and concluded: "Obviously, a revolution has taken place." In fact, the papers now routinely criticize the chemical corporation's influence on Delaware, where 10% of the work force is employed by Du Pont. Senior Vice President Irving S. Shapiro believes that much of the staff "is so anxious to demonstrate independence that the reporters try to find ways to paint the story against...
...fore the Revolution," said Metternich, "cannot know the sweetness of life," and Renoir's spiritual home was built before 1789. Almost from the start of his career, Renoir's technique and sense of construction were superb: witness the sober, Venetian expansiveness of his great tribute to Corot, Pont-des-Arts, circa 1868. Or the vigorous, limpid Still Life with Bouquet, 1871 , whose tones of gold, amber and black sum up his affinities with Impressionism - light caress ing every surface, revealing each nu ance of substance from the crackly parchment of the Japanese fan to the humid softness...
...Country to the article, Patrice Higonnet's book on Pont-de-Montvert was in press at the time of his appointment. For any departmental review committee, a book in press is a book and not a manuscript, and we would properly be accused of nit-picking if we failed to make this distraction. He had also published a series of important articles on French political alignments and interest groups during the Revolution and the Monarchie Censitaire, using computer analysis to after a new interpretation of the division between progressive and conservative opinion. To imply, as the article does, that Professor...
DELAWARE. Democrat Sherman W. Tribbiff, 49, coasted into office on a kind of reverse landslide: the land simply slid out from under his opponent, Republican Incumbent Russell W. Peterson, 56. A research chemist with a Ph.D. who left a $75,000-a-year job at Du Pont to run successfully for the governorship in 1968, Peterson had won a deserved reputation as a reformer and innovator; among his credits was a widely praised coastal zoning law, enacted in 1971, that barred polluting industries from building plants along Delaware's 381-mile shore line. But Peterson's fortunes suddenly...