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...powder mill that Eleuthere Irenée du Pont de Nemours built in 1802 on the banks of Delaware's Brandywine River has exploded into a vast corporation that did $3.6 billion worth of business last year, and now ranks 18th on FORTUNE'S roster of the largest U.S. industrial companies. Du Font's base remains in tiny Delaware, 47th in population among the states. That disparity in size intrigued Economist Lewis Anthony Dexter, who studied the situation in 1963 and concluded: "The elephant takes care not to dance among the chickens." It also intrigued Ralph Nader...
...page report, titled The Company State, Nader writes: "Du Pont dominates Delaware as does no single company elsewhere in any other state. Virtually every major aspect of Delaware life is pervasively and decisively affected by the Du Pont company, the Du Pont family, or their designees." Irenée du Pont Jr., 51, a company vice president and de facto family spokesman, told TIME Correspondent Hays Gorey that the charges are nonsense. Du Pont approves a description of the report by Dr. Julian Hill, a retired Du Pont chemist, as "intellectual vandalism." He adds: "I don't believe there...
...celebrations, and there were none last week. Still, Malraux has reached a degree of eminence at which there is universal agreement on his importance, if virtually none on his foremost achievement. Some believe that Malraux will be remembered largely for his writing. "A very great writer," says Pierre Viansson-Ponté, political editor of Le Monde. "With their backgrounds of the Far East, Spain and the French Resistance, Malraux's works are linked with life." In the political arena, Malraux receives fewer encomiums, least of all from the young. University students today read Man's Fate, Malraux...
Despite Malraux's early sympathy for militant Trotskyism, it was his relationship with Charles de Gaulle-a relationship that Le Monde's Viansson-Ponté likens to that of "sovereign and poet laureate"-that gave lasting political direction to his career. The French President considered his handsome Culture Minister "my brilliant friend" and "incomparable witness." As Malraux saw it, De Gaulle gave the French a consciousness of their own greatness...
...Pont, IBM, General Foods and thousands of other U.S. companies decorate foreign landscapes, creating jobs and contributing to the host country's prosperity...