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...Motown version of Yalta. For the first time ever, the heads of the Big Three auto companies agreed to sit down together for a joint magazine interview. Robert J. Eaton of Chrysler, John F. Smith Jr. of General Motors and Alex Trotman of Ford held the historic parley last week when they met with TIME's editors at the Detroit Athletic Club. Seated at a circular table, the captains of the car industry engaged in a revved-up but civil discussion about everything from the gas tax and NAFTA to government regulation. The result is part of this week...
...Bodines to write songs called, respectively, "Shatner" and "William Shatner." (And no, those Bodines aren't the mediocre BoDeans WFNX plays--but that's another story.) Another Smiths similarity: Edwyn's sinuous vocals, which mixed a shy whiteboy coyness with the tricks and glides he'd learned from American Motown records, were hardly the most "masculine" singing to be heard north of Hadrian's Wall...
...Gladys Knight--the real Gladys Knight--sang Happy Birthday to the First Lady, and a three-person band from Memphis played jazz, blues and Motown in the East Room until well past midnight...
BUSINESS: Motown Turns a Corner...
...Lakers had won the NBA title two years in a row, but the Bad Boys from Motown ended the dream with a four-game sweep in the finals...