Word: ponts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cover story page 18) must seem like a plentiful waste of time. A peppery 89, Ball is a monumentally stubborn, bourbon-sipping, union-busting, Government-fighting apostle of 19th century free enterprise. As senior trustee of the estate of the late chemical heir Alfred I. du Pont, he regularly puts in a full, often tumultuous work week managing one of the nation's greatest private treasuries. Operating out of a spartan office in Jacksonville, Fla., the 5-ft. 5-in. entrepreneur has long been an awesome political and financial power in the state. Lately, though, Ball's iron...
...estate at Alfred's death 42 years ago, it was worth $27 million after taxes. Today it is estimated at more than $2 billion. The mainstay of the estate is its rich stock portfolio, which includes 1.1 million shares of General Motors Corp., in which the Du Ponts once had a huge investment, and 702,880 shares of E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. itself...
...session. Steel was off; Republic, the industry's fourth largest producer, reported a $6.2 million loss for the period, caused largely by winter natural-gas shortages and transportation difficulties. Chemical company earnings were down, despite rising sales. Union Carbide was off 20%, to $81.5 million. Du Pont, the largest producer, registered earnings of $121 million, 12% below a year earlier. Chairman Irving S. Shapiro said depressed prices of synthetic fibers hurt...
...Pont-Aven, the setting for much of this loosely structured, deliberately vulgar French comedy, is the seacoast town where Paul Gauguin settled temporarily after abandoning his job and family in the 1880s. The hero of The Cookies is a present-day painter who also throws over a boring wife and job and moves to Pont-Aven. One major difference between the two men, however, is that Gauguin became in his rebellion a leading light of the French avantgarde. The hero of Cookies, both as a man and a painter, is largely obsessed with female buttocks. He is an artist...
...when President Kennedy marshaled all the power of the White House to force a steel-price rollback. Still, steel men note caustically, aluminum makers in November announced price increases of as much as 11 % on some products without drawing any special political comment. Even more striking, Du Pont raised the price of Dacron staple fiber up to 10%; yet Du Pont Chairman Irving Shapiro was welcomed to a long conference between Carter, his economic aides and some businessmen at which the participants discussed, among other things, what to do about steel prices...