Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Detroit...
...resident fascist pig of Adams House." Richard Parish, 22, was an Air Cav rifleman when a chunk of Communist shrapnel ripped his right shoulder to the joint; back in Michigan as a civilian, the Negro high school graduate was unable to pass physical examinations at either Cadillac Motors or Detroit Edison, and reluctantly began drawing disability pay. First Lieut. Leo Glover, 26, won a Silver Star and a Purple Heart near the DMZ as a Marine air controller, then turned his aerial expertise into a job as a flight engineer for Trans World Airlines in Kansas City, Mo.-but nearly...
...Urban League's veterans' program (TIME, May 26) is already functioning in eight cities-Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, New Orleans, New York, San Francisco and Washington-and in some of them has found work for more than a third of its applicants. Still, even the Urban League could do nothing for one Negro soldier who had lost an arm in the war and found that prospective employers considered him not a war hero but merely a one-armed man. He decided to stay in the service...
...operate at top speed-wide-open, breakneck speed-and still execute all the fundamentals of the game." When Orr first arrived in Boston, he respectfully addressed other players as "mister" and "sir." This year he has shown little respect for his elders-stealing the puck away from Detroit's Gordie Howe, say, or slamming Chicago's Bobby Hull into the boards with a vicious body check...
...music," says Aretha Franklin, "is me-and I'm not sure what that is." Her confusion is understandable. At 25, she is still Aretha the Baptist minister's daughter, the former teenage gospel singer in her father's church in Detroit, the shy girl who regards the glamorous trappings of show business as "a game." She can overcome her nervousness at singing in public only by imagining that she is "just at a party, and the audience is just my friends...