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Detroit, July 1967. The worst riot of the decade erupted on a muggy night when police raided an after-hours drinking club. At the height of the violence, President Lyndon Johnson sent in the U.S. Army, and the National Guard fired machine guns from Sherman tanks. The seven-day toll: 43 killed, 2,000 injured, 7,000 arrested and 5,000 left homeless...
Grum, the new executive vice president, graduated from Austin College in Sherman, Texas, and the Wharton School. He was vice president for finance at Temple Industries when Time Inc. acquired that Texas-based forest products firm in 1973. He later served as treasurer of Time Inc. and publisher of FORTUNE, and is now chairman of Inland Container Corp., a Time Inc. subsidiary that produces corrugated boxes. In his new post, Grum will supervise the activities of five group vice presidents. Says Heiskell: "Clifford is a very savvy, financially oriented man with a good knowledge of the forest products business...
...number four in this tennis parallel of Sherman's March to the Sea was junior captain Bob Horne, who survived an early scare to waste Bill Schmucker 6-7, 6-3, 6-1. Captain Bob lost the first set on a tough 5-4 tiebreaker, suffering a slight pulled hamstring in the process, but rebounded to win the next two sets easily...
Horowitz is nothing if not democratic in his prejudices. He loathes the New York Times and, at one point, spots a story about James Earl Carter Jr. in the paper: "Some President! Whatever General Sherman did on his march through Georgia, we are now even...