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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporations: Du Pont's Troubled Dynasty | 1/5/1970 | See Source »

...almost the same as the 7-5 compiled by Green Bay in 1959-the year Lombardi took over as head coach. Says Dallas Coach Tom Landry: "Like everyone else, Vince will have to build his team up with the draft. Only in his case, he makes things happen quicker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Whipping Up the Redskins | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

...British agreed to assign six additional combat brigades to Germany. Because NATO forces are outnumbered 2 to 1 on the crucial central front and would be quickly overrun in the event of an all-out ground attack, the NATO defense ministers also agreed to new guidelines that provide for quicker use of tactical nuclear weapons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: EUROPE: A TIME OF TESTING FOR THE POWER BLOCS | 12/12/1969 | See Source »

...work before women accepted them, because at that time there was nothing of that sort on the market.... It's taken a lot of educational time to have women find out that it really is a much-needed product.... The woman seems to accept the idea of masking much quicker than the towelette which both cleanses and deodorizes.... Women who are on the towelette recognize that they want the complete cleansing, therefore won't settle just for the spray. They might settle for the spray in addition...

Author: By Joanna Knobler, | Title: It's Not That You Have Bad Breath... | 10/18/1969 | See Source »

...movement. The point was that students who want to beat the system have to stop playing by the system's rules. Student bodies might get ROTC off the campus, and that might make a chink in ROTC, which might cut into the war effort. But maybe things would be quicker and more effective if the bodies worked on the Defense Department of General Dynamics instead of sticking to the artificial limits of the university. Laird and Nixon and Nader all know that the system can stand the students as long as they stay on campus; Nader is the only...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: Silhouette Nader at Harvard | 9/30/1969 | See Source »

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