It’s easy to imagine what went on back in 1972, when the boardrooms of DuPont Chemical were abuzz with conspiracy. Modern-day robber-barons reclined in chairs of fine Corinthian leather while their operatives described a breakthrough in making titanium dioxide, a pigment for paints and paper. DuPont, it seemed, had learned to make the stuff far […]
December 1979
Posted inDecember 1979, Magazine
The Crashes of ’79: The FAA Stalls Out
The first airplane built to U.S. government specifications flew at Fort Myer, Virginia on September 17, 1908, with Orville Wright at the controls. The plane crashed. Since then, more than 60,000 people have died in U.S. air disasters. And the government has reached the point of spending more than $2.5 billion a year to promote […]
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Kennedy’s Woman Problem—Women’s Kennedy Problem
The intelligent woman’s guide to the touchiest issue of the 1980 campaign.
