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...Mexico when the cumulus clouds start to pile up on horizon. The Gulf Coast is part desolate and soulless tourist strip, cheap motels and nightclubs where groups like Doug Clark and the Hot Nuts play, and part fishing villages and marsh and swamp. The swamps give way to Lake Pont-chartrain presently, and the Louisiana Superdome starts to loom on the horizon. Beyond the Mississipi and the alluvial silt of the Coast, Houston beckons...
...hottest-selling armor since Wilkinson Sword turned out chain-mail flak suits for airmen in World War II is made, improbably enough, from a finespun synthetic fiber called Kevlar. Developed by Du Pont and used primarily as a substitute for steel in belted radial tires, the fabric-lighter than nylon and tougher than steel-has been fashioned into everything from sports jackets to undervests and worn by everyone who might come under the gun, from cops to Presidents. While even the thickest Kevlar garments will not stop most rifle bullets, the material nonetheless provides formidable protection. The 23-layer version...
...voting switch in a subcommittee of the House Foreign Affairs Committee came from Delaware Republican Pierre S. Du Pont. After voting earlier against aid, he provided the majority vote for a compromise package of $82.5 million spread over 90 days and tied to monthly reports by Ford on progress in seeking a negotiated settlement. All military aid would end June 30. Du Pont, 40, argued that this would be more useful in achieving peace than an abrupt cutoff of help...
...prescribed corrective shoes to help relieve the condition. But new methods of detection and treatment have now greatly improved the prospects of scoliosis victims. A major advance has been the development of mass-testing procedures for use in the schools. Delaware, through a program involving the Alfred I. du Pont Institute and the state board of health, routinely checks schoolchildren with a simple test: the youngsters are asked to bend at the waist and touch their knees with their fingertips; a curvature will usually produce a visible fullness on one side of the rib cage or the other. In most...
...Amex is currently handling options trading in the shares of 13 companies, among them Du Pont, Union Carbide and U.S. Steel; it plans to increase its list to 20 stocks before long. Early investor interest was high, and Amex officials hope to do at least as well with options as the Chicago Board Options Exchange. C.B.O.E. members now collect commissions on an average daily volume of 40,000 option sales. Partly as a result, the price of seats on the C.B.O.E. has jumped from $10,000 to $40,000 in just 21 months...