Word: ponts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reformist critics of the present draft system. A couple of university presidents refused outright when approached to take the job. David Maxwell, Pennsylvania's budget director, was not interested. Then the Administration's recruiting effort turned to athletic types. Talent scouts tried to get John Pont, former head coach of Yale and now at Indiana University. Pont, who actively supported Nixon and was the President's occasional golf companion, said that he wanted to "coach a little longer." A similar reply came from Paul Dietzel, head coach at the University of South Carolina...
...million worth of municipal waste-treatment facilities in operation, another $834 million worth under construction. New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware have joined with the Federal Government to form the Delaware River Basin Commission. They have enlisted the cooperation of nearly 100 firms and municipalities, including Du Pont, Rohm & Haas and Sun Oil, in a $500 million effort to clean up an 85-mile stretch of the Delaware estuary between the ocean and Trenton...
...President Nixon has not yet announced his nominee to replace Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, the retiring director of the Selective Service System. But John Pont, head football coach at Indiana University, said Nixon telephoned three weeks ago and asked him to take the position. Pont said that he turned down the offer...
While agreeing with Chairman Copeland that Du Pont has never wanted to go after "the fast buck," McCoy admits that some decisions should have been quicker and better. "We may have missed chances," says McCoy, but he is too well trained not to add: "We still do not believe in doing things on a crash basis. We try instead to evolve continuously and deliberately...
...less for the broadly based New York Stock Exchange composite average of all 1,287 listed companies and Standard & Poor's 500-stock average. One reason for the disparity is that the fortunes of one or two companies can greatly affect the Dow average. When Du Pont shares fell by $100 during 1966, the Dow sank 50 points. Anaconda's price fell $40 this year, costing the Dow 20 points...