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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dedicated, disciplined, durable, Owens is the kind of runner professional coaches dream about. And in an age when many highly touted rookies turn up at contract negotiations with some high-flying salary demands, he sounds like the answer to a general manager's prayer. "I have no preference," says Owens. "I'll be happy with any team that happens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Booming Sooner | 12/5/1969 | See Source »

Judy Carne has moved out fast. Her Laugh-In contract expires in February, and she has already been to New York as star of an in-the-round version of Cabaret. She plans to do Dames at Sea in Florida in January and February. What did she do on her summer vacation? She made a movie, guest-starred some shows on the Kraft Summer Music Hall series, and began reading four other movie scripts. As for Joanne Worley, that full-breasted bird is doing commercials and guest spots, and is part of an upcoming Robert Goulet special. Says she whimsically...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Laugh-In Dropouts | 12/5/1969 | See Source »

...About a week ago I asked ABC for a little time off," Joey Bishop wisecracked to his studio audience one night last week, "but this is ridiculous." Joey will get the last 13 months of his contract off, ending a hopeless 2½-year challenge to NBC's Johnny Carson. The coup de gráce was the entry of CBS's Merv Griffin into the late-night competition in August. At last count, Johnny was attracting 33% of the audience to Merv's 18% and Joey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Good Night, Joey; Hello, Dick | 12/5/1969 | See Source »

...contract expired last May. but the fact remained generally unknown. Though napalm accounted for only about one-half of 1% of Dow's $1.6 billion annual sales, the company had become a target for acrimony. Clergymen led picket lines at Dow's annual meetings. A nationwide boycott was organized against its other products. Raiders splattered its Washington office with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporations: Dow Drops Napalm | 11/28/1969 | See Source »

American Electric Inc., which underbid Dow for Washington's latest napalm contract, may be in a better position. A subsidiary of City Investing Co., American Electric makes no consumer products- and it has no plans to recruit on college campuses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporations: Dow Drops Napalm | 11/28/1969 | See Source »

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