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...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...
...Nosal was the only member of the track team to place in the NCAA national championships this weekend at Detroit's Cobo Hall. The meet marked the end of the Crimson's indoor season...
...meet is continuing today in Detroit's Cobo Hall...
...piece of contemporary American theater, exceeded in noise, confusion and chaos only by a performance of Hair. General Motors' annual meeting last week in Detroit's enormous Cobo Hall played to an S.R.O. audience. Coolly and with remarkable stamina Chairman James M. Roche presided for 61 hours, answering a determined barrage of questions. This year, for the first time, the usual chorus of gadfly critics was bolstered by a group of more formidable antagonists. Among them: Harvard Biologist Dr. George Wald, Avis ex-President Robert (Up the Organization) Townsend and the new U.A.W. president, Leonard Woodcock...