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...Even the Cuban crisis, which forced Vice President Lyndon Johnson to cancel out as the chief speaker at a black-tie dinner of the auto industry's top brass, hardly diminished the excitement of the 44th National Automobile Show. Most of the million people who passed through cavernous Cobo Hall during the course of the week cheerily ignored the corny musical revue, in which leggy girls and toothy boys noisily attempted to equate car buying and patriotism ("Drive, you eagle, drive,/Hooray for the bright new day,/ Hooray for the U.S.A."). For the real stars of the show were...
...Detroit's grandiose Cobo Hall this week, four Lutheran bodies-the United Lutheran Church in America (2.500,000), the Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church (630,000), the Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Church (36,000) and the American Evangelical Lutheran Church (25,000)-will simultaneously hold their final conventions as separate bodies. Next morning, the 6,000 delegates and visitors will go back to Cobo Hall for the first Holy Communion service as mem bers of the nation's newest and largest Lutheran body: the Lutheran Church in America. "Unless and until Lutherans are sitting on the same side...
Miriani maintained that Detroit was in good shape, pointed with pride to his record as mayor; he cited a $47 million urban renewal program with seven major projects under way, economies that had saved the city some $25 million, the completion of the $70 million Cobo Convention Hall and Arena. Cried Miriani: "Detroit is on the move to a destiny of greatness...
...busy admiring and using our Ford Auditorium, Cobo Hall, City-County Building and Veterans' Memorial. We may not make money, but we sure look good...
...Miriani and his predecessor Cobo seemed to think about were monuments, apartments, shopping plazas, never thinking it takes money to use these dreams...