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...uncommon measure, E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. owes its long reign as the world's largest chemical company to its prowess at scientific research. With endless inventiveness and one of the largest corporate research budgets ($110 million a year), Du Pont's 4,000 scientists annually discover some 1,000 completely new compounds of matter, nurse these and other laboratory-born ideas into commercial usefulness at the remarkable rate of one a month...
Whole new technologies such as nylon, the first all-synthetic fiber, and neoprene, the first U.S. commercial synthetic rubber, have sprung from Du Pont's cornucopian test tubes. Last year 175 manufacturers built the tops of 12 million pairs of shoes with Du Pont's three-year-old synthetic Corfam, which is supposed to look, feel and "breathe" like natural leather. Early this year, after twelve years and $8,000,000 in research, the company invaded the rich pharmaceutical field by marketing an antiflu drug named Symmetrel, which can be taken orally as either a pill or syrup...
...Breadbasket. Despite such painstaking achievements-and ironically, partly because of them-Du Pont this year is suffering from what President Lammot du Pont Copeland (TIME cover, Nov. 27, 1964) delicately calls "a difficult adjustment period." After reaching a record $3.19 billion in 1966, the company's sales in the first quarter of this year fell to $755 million, 4% below their year-earlier level. Profits plunged 24% to $78 million, and the company expects no better results from the April-June quarter. "When autos, electrical appliances, steel and home furnishings are down, it hits us right in the breadbasket...
Married. Jacqueline Du Pré, 22, Britain's ample (5 ft. 9 in.), exuberant mistress of the cello; and Daniel Barenboim, 24, her occasional concert partner; in Jerusalem, after Jacqueline converted to Judaism...
This can be most readily seen in the phenomenon of Harvard musical stage productions. Since Cosi fantutte at Leverett two years ago, there has been a steady escalation in the size and difficulty of productions. Last year there were productions of Stravinsky's L'Histoire du Soldat. Mozart's Don Giovanni and Britten's The Turn of the Screw: this year it was hard to decide whether to be more impressed by Leverett's production of The Marriage of Figaro or the Bach Society-Music Club concert performance of Fidelio. The more ambitions these projects become, the more time, money...