Word: cobo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Detroit's Cobo Arena, 12,000 wildly partisan fans whooped with delight. Led by All-America Cazzie Russell, the University of Michigan's No. 3-ranked Wolverines were running the lanky legs off Duke's Blue Devils, the nation's No. 1-ranked college basketball team. Russell was all over the court, snaring rebounds, intercepting passes, scoring points in bunches of six or eight at a time. With barely four minutes to go, Russell had accounted for 28 points, and Michigan was leading Duke 80-70. The game seemed out of reach. "They...
...that there could be no fellowship without first reaching doctrinal agreement, the 2,744,574-member Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod has long stood aside from association with other U.S. Lutheran bodies and even more from the Christian ecumenical move ment. But at its triennial convention in Detroit's Cobo Hall last week, the Synod's 2,000 delegates voted to form a cooperative service agency with the American Lutheran Church, the Lutheran Church in America and the tiny (20,000 members) Synod of Evangelical Lutheran Churches...
...floor by John W. Behnken, respected former president of the Synod, who argued that "our forefathers were certainly interested in the unity of Lutheranism in America." Shortly after, current President Oliver Harms called for a vote. A chorus of scattered noes from diehard conservatives came from the back of Cobo Hall. "The resolution is not unanimous," said Harms, "but it is overwhelmingly adopted...
...Albrecht, pastor of the South Miami Lutheran Church, scorns the practice of "roping people for fund-raising dinners in competition with restaurants." But the Very Rev. Nicholas Maestrini, Superior of the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions, each year raises $65,000 by a $100-a-plate dinner at Cobo Hall in Detroit. The sociable, old-fashioned church supper remains a respected but inefficient way of raising funds...
...fact, what the cost-conscious Lyndon Johnson saved was a drop in the bucket compared to what he raised. In Detroit, 74 of the party faithful paid $1,000 apiece for cocktails and a presidential handshake. Then the President went to Cobo Hall where 1,700 paid $100 apiece to dine with...