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...Pont laboratories across the U.S., scientists are exploring the mysteries that teased Aristotle, baffled Francis Bacon and inspired the ancient alchemists to try, as John Milton put it, "to turn metals of drossiest ore to perfect gold." The alchemists never succeeded in making gold, but Du Font's button-down chemists are doing something nearly as good. By rearranging the molecules of thin air, plain water, grimy coal and crude oil, they are not only transforming and enriching the fabric of daily life but laying the foundations for new industries. Lately they have been so successful that Du Pont...
...Talk. Last week, under a scorching noon sun, Lyndon nonpolitically cultivated a group of businessmen in the White House Rose Garden. The guests were gathered for a presidential pep talk about the proposed new International Executive Service Corps, a kind of bluechip, button-down Peace Corps. "The program we are launching today," said Lyndon, "is an inspiring example of sane and sensible, responsible and constructive cooperation between Government and private enterprise...
...political stump or talking to a group of his fellow Baptist laymen on the subject of "The Erosion of the Lordship of Christ in the Protestant Church." But Hatfield will give convention voice to the far reaches of the western U.S. And no one doubts that the welltailored, button-down appeal of middle-reading Republican Hatfield will be a rating builder...
This spring Marimekko has come of age. Veering away from the pseudo ivy league button-down, shirtwaist styles, and the blatant tents for which it had become known, its lines are tamer. However, the effect is definitely on the wild side. A few styles retain excess fullness, but most are slimmed down and even semi-fitted. The trend from small geometric and corny floral-like prints to bold architectonic designs is an improvement. Wrought iron and fossil prints as well as the large circle designs really grab you. Specific spring shapes are back fullness, semi-A (fitted to waist), real...
Born. To Bob Newhart, 34, button-down comedian, and Virginia Quinn Newhart, 22, onetime TV extra: their first child, a son; in Los Angeles...