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...been jammed so often that he tapes a sponge above his knuckles for protection. But Detroit will keep him out there if they have to stick him together with Elmer's Glue-All. A couple of years ago, the Pistons occasionally had trouble luring 1,000 people into Cobo Arena to see them play. This year, attendance averages 7,500, and six times has topped the 10,000 mark. As Coach Butcher says: "We may not win it all, but we sure aren't going to be last any more...
...trouble finding income to match the outgo. For one thing, the non-struck automakers are no longer paying workers' U.A.W. dues directly to the union, and the U.A.W. finds it difficult to col lect from the boys. So last week Reuther rallied the faithful at Detroit's Cobo Hall for approval of an emergency dues increase. So armed, he warned that unless Ford makes a move, "we are in for a long, long strike...
...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...