Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reaction, when one is frustrated, is to pull a gun or call out the troops or drop the bomb," he told a news conference. "I don't honestly think that this is going to be the answer to our problems at home or to problems internationally." In Detroit, where he spoke at week's end at a Romney fund-raising luncheon, Rocky emerged just long enough from his noncandidate's shell to tell reporters flatly that he would accept a draft at the convention-"if one came about...
Spitting Fire. Elsewhere in Harlem, a Mau Mau guerrilla, toting a machete, bellowed: "We'll cut off whitey's head!" In Detroit, plans were announced for a convention to map out a separate black nation in five Southern states...
...public schools (see EDUCATION). The stench of January's illegal strike by New York City's sanitation men, which heaped 100,000 tons of garbage on the streets, offended the nation's nostrils-and was quickly followed by another strike of trash haulers in Memphis, Tenn. Detroit's summer epidemic of "blue flu," in which 700 policemen reported sick, deprived that city of 30% of its on-duty law-enforcement force. A 1967 walkout of firemen in Youngstown, Ohio, emptied all but one of 15 fire stations. In fact, Ohio, which has a tough law calling...
...major factor in making government workers more and more restive is the obvious difference between the rewards in the private sector and those in the public. Government pay scales often run below those paid by private industry. In Detroit, for instance, the median private hourly wage was $2.04 in 1955-against $1.79 for government workers. By 1967, the gap had widened: $3.49 to $3.09. Not many employees any longer consider it a privilege to work for the government. The job security of civil service has lost considerable point in a boom economy, where the demand for labor outstrips the supply...
...memorable heroes: Howie Morenz, the Montreal Canadiens' great center of the '20s and '30s; Eddie Shore, the old Boston Bruins star; Maurice ("the Rocket") Richard, who scored 544 goals for Montreal before retiring in 1960; and Gordie Howe, who at 39, in his 22nd year with Detroit, has scored 678 goals. Yet over eleven incredible seasons, during which the game itself has flourished as never before, Bobby Hull has established himself as the most dominant figure hockey has known and left his indelible imprint on the record book...