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Includes miscellaneous invitations, regrets, speeches, meetings, and general correspondence. Companies, organizations, and individuals represented include the following:

Quaker Oil Corp.

J. Howard Rambin, Jr., Houston, Texas

Ranchers Exploration & Development Corp. (Albuquerque, New Mexico)

Rand McNally & Co.

Raymond International, Inc. (Henry C. Boschen, J. E. Bush)

Gloria B. Read

Reader's Digest

Mrs. Paul E. Reed

John C. Reese

William S. Renchard

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (B. G. Folsom)

Republican State Committee of Pennsylvania

J. Edgar Rhoads

Richard H. Rhoads

Richardson-Merrell Inc. (Smith Richardson, Jr.)

William Bradford Robbins

Charles A. Robinson

Frank W. Rogers (Wood, Rogers, Muse, Walker, & Thornton, attorneys, Roanoke, Virginia)

John W. Rollins (Rollins International, Inc.)

Rotary International

Round Rock Lime Co. (Texas)

Paisley P. Rubin

Clyde Ruff (Ackerman, Mississippi)

Ryckman, Edgerley, Tomlinson & Associates, Inc.

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Brent P. Anderson, president, seeking to know from McCoy which of the divisions or departments of DuPont are most competently and aggressively managed, McCoy declined to say

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McCoy declines post as trustee

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Invitation to McCoy to be a host at meeting at White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, 1972; McCoy declined invitation to conference at Santa Fe, New Mexico 1970

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Visit of officials to DuPont in Wilmington 1 April 1971, and biographical data on them; David P. Reynolds

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McCoy guest at dinner in honor of President Pompidou of France, Waldorf-Astoria Hote1, New York, New York 2 March 1970; R.J. Picard, president, and also president French-American Chamber of Commerce in United States; Rhodia, wholly owned U. S. subsidiary of Rhone-Poulenc, of Paris

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Lammot du Pont Copeland to W. Baumgartner, president and director general of Rhone-Poulenc, 28 April 1969, regarding merging of R-P with Progi1 S.A.; McCoy to Wilfrid Baumgartner, president, 14 March 1972, acknowledging hospitality while in Paris; visit of Renaud Gillet, vice chairman of R-P, and R.J. Picard, president of Rhodia to Wilmington 2 January 1973; background memo on this visit, E.O. Ramler to D.H. Conklin 29 December 1972

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Data on proposed acquisition of Riker Laboratories (of Dart Industries, formerly Rexa11 Drug Chemical Co.) by Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Co., E. Mo Robinson to McCoy, et al., 10 July 1969; memo of D. L. Rhoads to J. P. Conlon 10 July 1969, regarding Riker Laboratories, Division of Dart Industries, Inc., Los Angeles, Calif.

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David Rockefeller, chairman of the board, Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, New York, to McCoy regarding group to study press and newscast attacks on financial and industrial institutions, and the defensive position into which they are forced; McCoy offers to participate and DuPont nominates Thomas W. Stephenson, of Public Relations, to represent it; Stephenson to McCoy 22 February 1971, memo regarding public image of business and industry, with copy of memo prepared by Carl B. Kaufman for the Rockefeller Group on the social responsibilities of private corporations in the 1970s; Stephenson to McCoy 11 October 1971, memo on progress of Rockefeller Group

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Annual report 1972; employee personnel problem 1971; Vincent L. Gregory, Jr., president of Rohm & Haas Co., speech "Energy and the petrochemical industry", before American Institute of Chemical Engineers at Tulsa, Oklahoma, 11 March 1971

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McCoy speech to Rotary Club, "An approach to Delaware's future" 3 January 1974; background data and memos regarding this speech, also comment upon it; DuPont, corporate news, press release; David L. Lewis, Jr., president of Rotary Club of Wilmington, Delaware; David S. Foster, of Lafayette, Louisiana, to Harry Haskell, Jr., mayor of Wilmington, regarding oil drilling; McCoy to David S. Foster 17 January 1974 regarding drilling off Delaware coast

Scope and Contents: Includes miscellaneous invitations, regrets, speeches, meetings, and general correspondence. Companies, organizations, and individuals represented include the following: Safic-Alcan & Cie, Paris, France (Alain Alcan, president) James Salinger & Associates, Cincinnati Richard J. Schmeelk (Salomon Brothers, New York, New York) Prof. Paul A. Samuelson, of MIT Saturday review / world (Norman Cousins) xerox copy of article' "Ed Ball's marvelous, old-style money machine" from Fortune (December 1974) by Hush Loving, Jr. Michael Scanlon (a child), in reply to his letter, McCoy wrote on 17 April 1972 "You ask what our biggest problem is. I would say that our biggest problem is finding out what our customers' needs are and trying to fill those needs as best we can. That's what business is all about." G. David Schine, Los Angeles, Calif. Elmer F. Schumacher Scientific American (Gerald Piel, publisher, New York, New York) Scott Paper Co., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Seaboard Coast Line Railroad, Richmond, Virginia (W. Thomas Rice, chairman) G. D. Searle & Co. Security Pacific Corp., Los Angeles, Calif. (Frederick G. Larkin, Jr., chairman) Philip S. Seltzer Shareowners Educational Foundation, Inc., New York, New York Benjamin F. Shaw, 2nd. Sheble & Wood Yarn Corp., Spring House, Pennsylvania Showa Neoprene K.K. (Shoichi Inouye), Tokyo, Japan Sir Marcus Sieff (Marks & Spencer, London) Frederick B. Silliman (Bridgeport Hydraulic Co.) Simmons International Corp., Torrance, California Sinclair Oil Corp. Singapore Investment Center, New York, New York Showhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, New York, New York (August Heckscher, Hoyt Ammidon), award medals Sky Aluminum Co., Ltd. (Shoichi Inouye) Tokyo, Japan Jack B. Skye, Houston, Texas Melvin A. Slawik (New Castle Co., Delaware, executive) E. Newbold Smith Smithsonian Magazine (Thomas H. Black, advertising director) Société Ohimique - La Grande Paroisse Society of Automotive Engineers Society for the Advancement of Management Sohio (oil...

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Alain Alcan, president, director general, to McCoy 25 July 1969, congratulations on Apollo II operation; McCoy in reply, 14 August 1969: "DuPont was one of several hundred companies that played a part in the space effort that culminated in the landing on the moon..."

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DuPont gift of $250,000 to building fund January 1973

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Memo on caustic soda - Brazil 28 February 1971, B. F. Schlimme to McCoy; meeting with Euvaldo Freire de Carvalho Luz, president of Salgema; joint venture with DuPont