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...small Fort Worth group, which has been meeting weekly since last November, is typical in membership, questions and answers of one of the least-known but fastest-growing teen-age organizations in the U.S. It is called Alateen. Founded in 1957 in Pasadena, Calif. by the high-school-aged son of an alcoholic, Alateen now numbers 65 chapters in the U.S., three in Canada, two in Australia; 50 more are being organized in the U.S. Membership in each group averages ten boys and girls whose adolescence is scarred, often literally, by an alcoholic parent. The youngsters range from...
...Bonn's Defense Minister Franz-Josef Strauss climbed into a British Hawker Hunter, was whisked to 43,000 ft., broke through the sound barrier, then was brought down to buzz a Hannover airfield at a risky 100 ft. After receiving a diploma citing him as "Germany's fastest minister," Strauss jowled: "I felt safer than on the Autobahn...
Under crusty old (74) William Francis O'Neil, Akron's General Tire & Rubber Co. is probably the fastest-growing, most diversified company in the rubber industry. Last year General Tire and its 46 subsidiaries and affiliates grossed more than $730 million (net: $26 million), turned out such diverse products as tires, rocket engines, tennis balls, plastics, steel, wrought iron, movies and girdles. The reason for so many far-flung enterprises, explains O'Neil blithely, is that "I wanted enough diversification so that my sons wouldn't have to scrap with each other." Last week Board Chairman...
...medley (butterfly, backstroke, breast stroke, freestyle), Stanford Junior George Harrison, 20, won in 4:28.6 to better by 2.6 sec. the fastest time ever recorded for the event and earn high praise from Yale's Coach Emeritus Bob Kiphuth: "Technically the greatest all-round swimmer in the world." Behind Harrison was Sophomore Lance Larson of the University of Southern California, who himself was .5 sec. under the record...
...Death's Door. Fastest-growing U.S. area for skindiving is the Northeast, despite water cloudy and cold enough to dismay a mackerel. For warmth, New Englanders may pull on foam-rubber "wet" suits,* will even chip a hole through ice to get at water. In the landlocked Midwest, divers gang together for long trips to Death's Door-a channel off a Wisconsin peninsula jutting into Lake Michigan, where, tucked among hidden reefs, lie more than 200 ships dating back to the 17th century. In parched New Mexico, a club called the Dusty Divers makes weekend round trips...