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...Progress. They will find many kindred spirits already at work. Norway, which claims that it was the first to copy President Kennedy's Peace Corps idea, has teams in Uganda. Similar programs have been initiated by Canada, Australia, Denmark, The Netherlands, New Zealand and Switzerland. The French Volontaires du Progres has dispatched 95 farmers, carpenters, masons and doctors to France's former African colonies, and within a year expects to have 400 in action...
...hours staring through picture windows at the 115 acres of their campus-like enclave. The aura of the place is one of uncertainty, as if no one quite knows what will happen next. No one does know. That is what makes the Experimental Station of E. I. du Pont de Nemours one of the world's most exciting places in which to work...
...Du Pont has become the world's largest chemical company by creating an atmosphere in which surprises are especially likely to occur. In the Experimental Station and dozens of other Du 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...
Windfall. Last week Du Pont created a stock market flurry by freeing itself of a possession that has proved a distinctly mixed blessing. Meeting in the company's 13-story, Victorian-style headquarters in Wilmington, the directors decided to distribute the final one-third of Du Pont's 63 million shares of General Motors stock among its own shareholders early next year. The directors thus complied with a 1957 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that held that Du Font's ownership of G.M. stock violated the anti-trust laws. Getting rid of the shares under a court order...
Extending Life. Its search for higher profits has led Du Pont to look with new interest on the consumer field, to which it now sells only 5% of its products directly. The company is speeding up development of consumer products, such as its recently introduced electric toothbrush, and would like to expand into the homebuilding field with plastic piping and other products. But Du Font's strength for the foreseeable future will continue to be as a wholesaler to U.S. industries of the secrets it unlocks in the laboratory...