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Besides being the largest single owner of Du Pont and one of the richest men in America, Copeland is also a chemist and a financial expert who believes in Andrew Carnegie's dictum: "Put all your eggs in one basket, and watch them." Fiercely loyal to the closely woven clan and its company, Copeland believes, in the best big-business tradition, that Du Pont has a duty to do a great deal more than make money for its 240,000 stockholders. As he sees it, the firm that his family founded needs to set the pace for others...
Goldwater is a threat, not because he moves counter to the stream of American life and thought, but because he represents a strain woven deeply into the American mythology--the self-sufficiency of the individual. Belief in the individual is essential to any liberal society, but Goldwater extrapolates this concept from its social context and makes it all-important. Society becomes a mere collection of atomistic units, each an island unto himself. It is regarded as they, not we. It is the individual's lack of identification with society that enables him to excuse his irresponsibility by saying 'Society...
...dark night, with the help of a rope he has woven and a grappling hook he has made, the man at last escapes from the pit. Free! In rapture he races aimlessly among the big black dunes. In horror he feels the sand give way beneath his feet. He has escaped from one pit only to fall into another-a pit of quicksand! "Help!" he screams. "Help!" His life is saved but his freedom is lost; the men who pull him out of the quicksand put him back in the pit. In blank hatred he stares at the sand...
...theory, stretch fabrics have been around since 1947, when the discovery of vertically stretchable textured yarn hit the slopes, making ski pants a stylish as well as a sturdy business. Chemical processes like slack mercerizing (by which the fabric, not the raw fiber, is made resilient after it is woven) left cottons and wools horizontally stretchable, did wonders for men's oxford shirts. Spandex, a wholly elastic fiber produced by Du Pont in 1958, revitalized bathing suits, hosiery and undergarments. But the big breakthrough came only last spring, when Du Pont went one giant step farther with the discovery...
Nowadays the fragrance of Hong Kong comes from dead fish, firecracker dust, rotting cabbage, auto exhausts and night soil, all woven into a unique miasma. There are 100,000 people who live afloat in suburbs of sampans and never use a toilet or garbage pail. But the main source of trouble is a place ten miles from the city quaintly named Gin Drinkers' Bay by the British and more accurately known as Garbage Bay to the Chinese...