Word: ponts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most concerned with raising Hollywood's "standards of excellence." "Forget about image," he preaches. "Image is an illusive word. Du Pont's greatest public-relations instrument is nylon. What we've got to do is make excellent movies"-not the sort of movies, he implies, that are being turned out by the M.P.A.A. members that hired him but rather those of the creative cinema of postwar Italy, the New Wave in France and now England. "The next creative center," he concludes, "will be here. We are educating an audience that will not accept the ordinary. We want...
...thump comes not from the car but the tire. The noise is an embarrassing result of nylon's tendency to "flat spot," that is, to flatten slightly when the car stands still for a while. Lately, the chemical manufacturers have devised nylons that almost eliminate flat spotting. Du Pont has begun marketing its N-44 nylon cord, Chemstrand has come up with X-88, Allied Chemical with...
Footwear or Firepower? In mid-April, U.S. officials were surprised to note that Saigon businessmen had ordered 150 tons of Du Pont-made Unicel-100, a powdered compound used in the manufacture of rubber sandals. Oddly, that one shipment was sufficient to make 7.5 million pairs, though last year's production in Viet Nam had been no more than 500,000. Du Pont had warned Government men before that the stuff was also a deadly explosive, and AID officials ordered a Naval Ordnance Laboratory test last month to determine its effectiveness. They were surprised to find that the compound...
Another race-track millionaire retired last week: a four-legged one. In seven years, from 1959 to 1966, Mrs. Richard C. du Pont's Kelso won 39 races and $1,977,896, was named U.S. Horse of the Year five times. Last week the nine-year-old gelding was training for still another campaign in Florida when doctors X-rayed a suspicious sore spot on his ankle and discovered a hairline fracture. Kelso, No. 1 moneywinner in the history of thoroughbred racing, was sent to pasture...
...Woolworth; that sum is then divided by a divisor (currently 2.245) to adjust for past stock splits and dividends. Not only is the Dow a severely limited gauge of the 1,625 stocks on the Big Board, but it gives undue power to higher-priced stocks. Example: Du Pont is only one-sixth the size of General Motors, but carries more than twice as much weight in the Dow because it sells for about $218, as compared...