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...them all. none was more practiced than Charles de Gaulle in la tactique du silence. "Why speak," he had often confided, "if only to pronounce words without a tomorrow...
Before the U.S. District Court in Chicago last week, Du Pont answered the Government's proposed plan to eliminate Du Font's control of General Motors. Du-Pont flatly said that it would fight the Government's proposal requiring it to distribute two-thirds of its 63 million G.M. shares to its stockholders over a period of ten years, sell the remaining one-third on the open market (TIME, Nov. 4). Said Du Pont: "A harsh, unreasonable and wholly unnecessary penalty...
Instead, the company offered to hand over all voting rights on Du Pont-held G.M. stock to its 185,000 stockholders on a pro rata basis. The family-controlled Christiana Securities Co. and Delaware Realty & Investment Co., which together own 29% of Du Pont, would do the same for their 4,000 stockholders. Du Pont would also promise not to buy any more G.M. shares, and would have no directors on G.M.'s board without specific court approval. "What would remain," said Du Pont, "would be an investment...
...only other woman with an endowed chair at Harvard is Cora Du Bois, the Samuel Zemurray, Jr. and Doris Zemurray Stone-Radcliffe Professor of Anthropology. This professorship, however, is limited to women. Mrs. Payne Gaposchkin will be Phillips Professor of Astronomy, a professorship which honors Phillips as "the first major benefactor of astronomy at Harvard...
Playwright Duürrenmatt can well afford his bucolic luxury. Almost unknown in the U.S. until The Visit (although one novel, The Judge and His Hangman, was published by Harpers in 1955, and earlier this year an off-Broadway group presented his Fools Are Passing Through), Duürrenmatt is one of the best-known and most often performed writers in mid-Europe. Last season The Visit alone had 213 performances on eleven different German stages...