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Life was never dull for Dwight Hall Owen Jr. By the time he was a sophomore at Stanford University, gangling (6 ft. 4½ in.), energetic "Dee" Owen had fought forest fires in the West, mined gold in Honduras, motor-scoot-ered through Europe, and worked his way to Viet Nam. There, as a free lance newspaper correspondent, he be came something of a hero by shooting it out with the Viet Cong when the 1st Infantry patrol he was accompanying was ambushed north of Saigon (TIME...
...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...
...president of Motown (for motor town) Records, Gordy has thrust his young 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...
...figure eight. Doing away with the stop-and-start movements of the piston engine saves valuable power for a continuous circular movement. The RO 80 will feature two half-liter engines, placed side by side, yet even this will only take up half as much space as a conventional motor of equal power and weigh about two-thirds as much...
...maintain sufficient membership to guard citizens-band Channel 9 (a nationwide emergency channel) 24 hours a day, seven days a week. In Detroit, the Automobile Manufacturers Association operates the headquarters of HELP, whose several thousand members man a network of two-way radios designed primarily to help stranded motor vehicle drivers...