Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last, desperate try at nonviolence" and "an outlet for the rage in the ghetto." But the time may have passed when King or anyone else can provide what he calls "an alternative to a long, hot summer." The riot commission appointed by Johnson after last summer's Detroit eruption has reportedly concluded that where normal channels for achieving change are choked off, Negroes have often found revolt the most effective way of getting attention from city hall and Washington...
Newspaper-strike season is upon the land. Detroit's two dailies were shut down nine weeks ago over a wage dispute that shows no signs of coming to an end. For five weeks the American Newspaper Guild has been picketing Hearst's Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, but the Herald-Examiner has hired non union personnel and continues to pub lish. Annoyed by this, out-of-work union men journeyed to San Francisco, where they set up "informational" picket lines around another Hearst paper, the San Francisco Examiner. Mailers, who had been negotiating with the Examiner, promptly walked...
Teamsters v. Teamsters. Detroit has turned into a comedy of strikes. No sooner had the Press and News stopped publishing than three interim papers sprang up, ready to reap lush profits. Interestingly enough, the Teamsters, who had called the strike in the first place, were intimately involved in the publication of two of the new papers. All went swimmingly until the Teamsters' local demanded the same stiff wage increase from the interim papers that they had asked of the dailies: a 10% hike over two years, plus a $46 benefit package. Teamsters wanted the papers to hire...
Nuggets of New Leftism. As in Detroit, interim papers have popped up in San Francisco, but they have not done very well. The Stanford Daily, which had added wire-service copy and increased its press run, gave up last week. The Berkeley student paper, the Daily Californian, is still struggling. Ramparts magazine has produced a slender daily with the motto: "What good is freedom of the press if there isn't one?" A free press apparently means little nuggets of New Leftism; last week the paper expanded somewhat, adding some Chronicle columnists. Meanwhile, out-of-town papers are enjoying...
Skull, Neck & Eye. Gordie Howe of the Detroit Red Wings estimates that he has had 500 stitches taken in his face, and it took a delicate operation to save Howe's life after he suffered a fractured skull during the 1950 season. Five years ago, Montreal's Lou Fontinato crashed into the boards with such force that he broke his neck. Fontinato never played again-nor did Detroit's Doug Barkley, who was blinded in the right eye by an opponent's stick in 1966. Last year, players from the six teams that then made...