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Irving S. Shapiro, chairman of Du Pont, reports that his company is recycling waste material to reduce the disposal problem and keeps a watchful eye on the contractors it uses for disposal. The most critical problem, as he sees it, is to clean up widely scattered "orphan waste sites" that no one has supervised. Says he: "Let's start with today, not worry about who did what in the past. Government and industry should work together rather than get emotional. We've got to get going rather than sitting around trying to figure out who's wearing...
...especially in West Germany and Japan. The book's basic message: the growth of Government control over business in the U.S. has been so rapid that almost no one in either the private sector or politics knows how to cope with it. The result: wasteful combat. Writes Irving Shapiro, vice chairman of E.I. duPont de Nemours & Co.: "For a long time the two [business and politics] have been circling around each other like gladiators in combat, blocking and parrying each other's moves...
...Journal line is a hit with many businessmen. As Du Pont Chairman Irving Shapiro told TIME'S Elizabeth Rudulph: "They ring the bell with their readers. People are seeing in print what they believe themselves." But even Shapiro admits that Journal editorials tend to be "somewhat strident." That stridency is at least partly redeemed by the Journal's op-ed page, a mélange of opinion (not always conservative), letters to the editor and coverage of the arts. The page now appears twice weekly but will become a daily feature in January...
Joshua's childhood has left little room for pretensions. Like the author, he was born and raised in the low-rent Jewish section of Montreal, the background for Richler's The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz and St. Urbain's Horseman. Shapiro's father Reuben is an ex-boxer and oldtime bootlegger who helped the Colucci family collect gambling debts and gave unorthodox religious instructions to his son: "There are ten commandments. Right? Well, it's like an exam. I mean, you get eight out of ten, you're just about top of the class...
...quite a narrative trick, one that allows the author to hit the emotional highs and bawdy lows of Shapiro's lurch through a world of dubious achievements and even more dubious respectability. Joshua, with his raffish background and inherited street smarts, is an arbiter of such matters. Most of his childhood friends make it to Montreal's affluent suburbs and lose their roots in wall-to-wall carpeting. To put on occasional airs is human, but to be a full-time phony is to risk devastating caricature, like Yossel Kugelman who becomes Psychiatrist Jonathan Cole, author...