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...gate attraction alone, Cousy is worth every penny of that to the Celtics and the N.B.A. Last week the N.B.A. began national telecasting of Saturdayafternoon games over a 51-station hookup (Du Mont), and Cousy & Co. were the stars for the first three performances...
Almost six years after the Government filed an antitrust suit charging the Du Pont Co. with a monopoly in cellophane and cellulose packaging products, Federal Judge Paul Leahy dismissed the case. The record, Judge Leahy declared this week in a 381-page opinion, disclosed "not the dead hand of monopoly, but rapidly declining prices, expanding production, intense competition stimulated by creative research . . . and other benefits of a free economy. Neither Du Pont, nor any other American company similarly situated, should be punished for its success...
...flatly opposed tariff reductions. It argued in its 200-page report that "tariff cuts would be a cruel deception to the American people because they wouldn't begin to accomplish their proclaimed objective of 'trade, not aid.' " A lower protective tariff, said the association, which includes Du Pont, Dow Chemical Co. and General Aniline & Film Corp., would cut back production of essential chemicals, halt expansion plans and force the industry to curtail its $204 million-a-year research program. The industry is itself the product of protective tariffs, said the report; it got its start when chemical...
Last week, 78 years after his death, old Pierre was still teaching. The great publishing house he founded had just put out a supplement to its six-volume Larousse du XXe Siècle, and by doing so, it had brought up to date France's foremost dictionary-encyclopedia. Today the Larousse books are the final popular arbiters for French words: nine out of ten Frenchmen know them, and eight out of ten families own either the one-volume Petit Larousse (1,800 pages, 70,000 words and articles), the two-volume Nouveau Larousse Universel (2,176 pages...
Last week the stock market reached an eight-month high as the Dow-Jones industrial averages rose four points to 280.23. Among the week's leaders: Du Pont, up more than three points to 105⅜; General Electric, up seven points...