Word: cobo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Detroit's Cobo Hall was jumping. In one sector of the huge entertainment complex pro tennis players were trading shots with muscular precision. A second area was awhirl with the lithe acrobatics of a track meet. On the Arena's basketball court the hometown Pistons were preparing to play the Washington Bullets. In that three-ring atmosphere, the management appropriately promised that costumed "clowns will perform throughout the game." The unintended reference ultimately proved embarrassing to the Pistons. Treating them like part of the sideshow, the Bullets won by 25 points and reinforced the claim that under...
...sellout luncheon for 3,500 in Cobo Hall the next day, Young received fervent promises of support from Henry Ford II and United Automobile Workers President Leonard Woodcock. The festivities culminated in an inaugural ball Friday night in the flower-festooned hall, where more than 8,000 people danced the night away...
Harvard finished out of the running at the NCAA Track and Field Championships held Saturday in Detroit's Cobo Hall, as none of the Crimson thinclads advanced to the final rounds...
...their first match in Detroit's Cobo Hall, a Detroit right-wing group named Breakthrough showered leaflets from the balcony that said "Smash Communism, support Christian resistance." The capacity crowd of 11,000 booed the interruption, and cheered wildly as the tourists, obviously taking it easy in the spirit of friendship, rolled to a 5-1 victory...
Rising before a large public audience for the first time to answer questions about Phase II, President Nixon chose a friendly forum: the big wheels of the Detroit Economic Club. Outside Cobo Hall, about 3,000 pickets demonstrated. Some carried placards calling on the President to FREEZE WAR NOT WAGES or to free both Jimmy Hoffa and Angela Davis. Members of the crowd passed out phony dollar bills labeled "The Inflated States of America," with a portrait of Nixon captioned "Daddy Scorebucks...