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...HELEN BOYD CHRISTAL Palma, Mallorca, Spain
...backboard-13 ft. above the floor. Another coach facetiously plugged for sinking the baskets into the floor like golf cups. "That way," he said, "it should at least take him longer to reach over and stuff the ball in." A third alternative was tested by Southern Cal Coach Bobby Boyd when his Trojans played the Bruins two weeks ago. Boyd's notion: pretend that Alcindor is just another man on the U.C.L.A. roster, let him take his shots-and pray that he misses. Lew took his shots all right-32 of them-and he hit on 23. He also...
...Boyd grew up to the tune of poverty. The son of a dirt farmer who lost his Blencoe, Iowa, spread during the Depression and died penniless, he first earned spending money by borrowing the family horse and hiring himself out to other farmers. At 17 he headed for Omaha, studied accounting while scouring floors and cleaning tables for board and tuition, got his first job as an accounting clerk with General Motors Acceptance Corp. Later, after Boyd served as a Nash sales executive, he ran his own Nash, then Buick dealerships in Sioux City, Iowa, and Alliance...
Chrysler's new president will be Virgil E. Boyd, a Townsend protégé who, at 54, is seven years older than his boss. Boyd has held Chrysler's No. 3 slot-vice president in charge of domestic sales and production-ever since Townsend lured him from a similar position at American Motors in 1962. He will bring to his new job a strong suit in marketing experience and a close rapport with auto salesmen...
...Chrysler, under Boyd's sales guidance, dealerships have swelled from 5,600 to 6,600 and nearly doubled their business and profits. In '61 Chrysler sold 719,933 cars and trucks in the U.S., last year sold 1,612,321-or 15.7% of the market compared to 10.8% five years ago. Boyd has high hopes for '67. "The basic ingredients for a 9,000,000-car year are still there," he says...