Word: dearborn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...early days, by law, British motorists had to be preceded by men on foot crying their approach. But by 1903, on the Continent, 3,000,000 fans were turning out to watch a road race from Paris to Madrid. In the U.S. a year later, a Dearborn, Mich., farmer's son was advertising his Ford as "the fastest car in the world"-and proving it by clocking 91.37 m.p.h. on the cinder-covered ice of Lake St. Clair. And it was not long before an enchanted U.S. public was thrilling to the exploits of a whole...
...Dearborn, Mich...
Last week Iacocca got his reward. Piling his personal gear into a bright red Mustang, he sped the half-mile from his office to corporate headquarters in Dearborn, where he moved into the vacant office of group vice president, Iacocca, an executive noted for his hard salesmanship, will not only be in charge of all Ford cars and trucks -accounting for 80% of the company's sales-but of Ford of Canada and Lincoln-Mercury...
...Lesinski's father represented the old 16th from 1933 until his death in 1950. The Dingells were liberals and champions of the Negroes, who comprised some 46% of the population in their longtime constituency. The Lesinskis stood fast against any Negro penetration of their own home ground of Dearborn, a virtually all-white city...
...fears of black incursions, the backlash, so everybody thought, was an "obvious" issue. Dingell accused Lesinski's followers of "trying to use it. They're raising the bogeyman, telling people that if I'm elected there will be two Negro families on every block in Dearborn." Lesinski indeed raised some bogeymen. "The other day," he cried in a typical speech, "a 35-year-old man was set upon and stabbed by four colored fellows. He was stabbed to death. It didn't appear on TV or in the papers. They hushed it up. Now that...