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Article: DuPont's Jackson: a man of fiber. (Ned C. Jackson, Dacron division V.P.) (Companies, Management & People)
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- Chemical Week
- Article date:
- June 26, 1996
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Ned C. Jackson, DuPont's v.p./Dacron, is made of incongruity. He drives a turbocharged Mitsubishi GT3000, but the mellow sounds of Ray Price and Freddy Fender croon softly over the high-revving power plant. He can give a motivational speech or sales pitch with the best of them but pepper it with the sort of words that do not appear in the company's annual report. He graduated from a school he calls "Moo U."--the University of Iowa--but made a career that has left many Ivy Leaguers in the dust of his GT's extrawide wheels.
In short, Jackson is having more fun than most. "At my age, you stop worrying," says Jackson, 61. "You got enough money. You got grand-kids. Life ...