Word: cobo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). Telecast live from Cobo Hall, Detroit, the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships...
Onstage at Detroit's Cobo Hall was a line of four U.S.-made compact cars and four small imports-with a wide space in the middle. Pointing at the gap, American Motors Chairman Roy D. Chapin Jr. proclaimed: "The center of this market has been unoccupied-until today!" On that cue, a shiny new Rambler American burst through a paper partition. It carried a new, low price tag, which, said Chapin, would make it a "total value superior to the imports and superior in both price and range of choice" to U.S. compacts...
...even took the Senator in tow and crashed the Democrats' Labor Day festivities. The two Republicans marched -uninvited-in a Democratic parade, went to the airport-uninvited-to meet President Johnson, and sat-uninvited-in an A.F.L.-C.I.O. audience during Johnson's speech at Detroit's Cobo Hall. Then Romney and Griffin helicoptered to Flint and clambered over a wire fence to appear-uninvited-at a U.A.W.-sponsored picnic...
...opening of Cleveland's 23rd show, neither blizzards nor bone-chilling winds sweeping off of ice-covered Lake Erie could deter 18,000 hardy hobbyists. And in Detroit, while huge blocks of ice floated down the river near by, the crowds packed so tightly into cavernous Cobo Hall that the fire marshal finally had to bar the doors...
...little faith. To the surprise of just about everybody in Cobo Arena, the Blue Devils did it. Over those last four minutes, they outscored the Wolverines 15-5, and it took a last-second basket by Michigan's John Clawson to force the game into overtime, with the score tied 85-85. After that, it was strictly no contest. "Wave those arms! Keep Russell covered!" Duke Coach Vic Bubas bellowed from the bench; surrounded by two and sometimes three Duke defenders, Cazzie managed to get off six shots during the 5-min. overtime period-and missed all six. Duke...