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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With a touch of bravado, the Ghanaian Times invoked on Kwame Nkrumah's behalf the classic plaint: "Save me from my friends; mine enemies I can take care of." This was putting Nkrumah's plight too simply. From the way things were going in Accra, Osagyefo could no longer tell which was which...
...weed. He also received 25¢ a week allowance, which he was obliged to keep track of in an account book that John D. Jr. checked over weekly. (Inaccuracy brought a nickel fine, exceptional accuracy or neatness a nickel reward.) "Father's strict rule," says David, "was that we should save 10% of our money and give away...
...shot if I do not escape," he explains. "What is one life against so many?" Bewildered in the mazes of moral choice that inescapably invest a man who tries to do a good deed in a naughty world, the hero kills a comparatively innocent soldier in order to save the comparatively guilty President. As the film ends, he is wondering how he is going to live with his crime-a crime that turns out to have been unnecessary. Just across the border the President dies...
What causes the wars is the big surplus of refining capacity that major companies built after the Suez crisis. This, combined with the advent of gas-miserly compact cars and smooth-riding superhighways (that save on fuel), has created a glut. Production cannot be fully cut back, because gasoline is just one of the byproducts of the refinery process...
...Pont; Greenewalt moves up to chairman of the board after 14 years as president. While Greenewalt will "guide policy decisions," Du Font's operations will be run by Copeland, who joined the family firm shortly after graduating from Harvard (B.S. in engineering, '28) and, save for a four-month layoff during the Depression, has been with it ever since. The change, Du Pont executives say, was long scheduled, but hinged on the retirement of Walter S. Carpenter Jr., 74, who wanted to stay on as chairman until the completion of Du Font's long and vain battle...