Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SUMMER '67: WHAT WE LEARNED (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). A news special on Negro rioting in U.S. cities, focusing on Detroit and Newark. Daniel P. Moynihan, author of the Moynihan report on Negro family life, is among those interviewed...
...years ago, Berry Gordy Jr. was making $90 a week as a chrome trimmer on a Ford Motor Co. assembly line near Detroit. At 37, he is still applying finishing touches, but now he owns the whole assembly line. Instead of autos, he rolls out pop records - and has become a millionaire several times over...
...company high among the nation's independent recording firms. With predicted 1967 sales of $30 million, Motown is notable on several counts. For one, Gordy is a Negro in a business where the management is almost all white. For another, he has firmly an chored his enterprise in Detroit, far from such recording meccas as New York and Los Angeles. Most important, he has developed interrelated subsidiaries whose systematic control of Motown performers, publicity and recordings is unique in the industry...
Though he now spends 95% of his time on the business end, Gordy got where he is today mainly because he wanted to be a songwriter. Son of a Georgia-born plasterer, he grew up in Detroit slums, quit school in the eleventh grade because he was interested only in music and boxing. As a professional featherweight, he won ten of 14 bouts, seven on knockouts, but got discouraged because he "never fought anybody worthwhile." After Army service, he opened a record shop and went broke, but continued writing and recording songs at his own expense. In 1959, Way Over...
...seven weeks, bargainers from the U.A.W. and Detroit's Big Three had nattered back and forth over negotiating tables. Not until early last week did G.M. Negotiator Earl Bramblett hand U.A.W. Vice President Leonard Woodcock a 22-page booklet titled Summary of General Motors Proposals to the U.A.W. for a New Three-Year National Agreement. A few minutes later, negotiators for Ford and Chrysler made almost identical offers...