Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Experience should smooth the rough edges off Bradley's passing and play making. After the second Detroit game, the Pistons' Dave Bing, currently tops in the league with a 28-point average, said that Bradley "is a better shooter than I am, but he's always looking for the open man. He's always passing off instead of popping it in himself...
...belatedly, lawmen and lawyers are beginning to recognize the advantages of video tape. In Detroit, police lineups of suspects have been videotaped, making it possible for witnesses to do their viewing when convenient for them. An added benefit for assault and rape victims: they do not have to undergo the trauma of physically facing the assailant again. In fact, the only drawback many police departments see to video tape is price. The complete Ampex system of camera, sound recorder and receiver, which is generally conceded to be the best and most adaptable, costs $1,654 for just...
...pollution caused by cars with conventional internal-combustion engines, proposals for electric cars have been regularly tumbling out of Government, industry and academic research proj ects. The latest came last week, when American Motors Corp. showed off its Amitron, a three-passenger, snub-snouted electric car, at a Detroit hotel...
Preparing for a consumer comeback next year, Mercedes is readying a new line. Though the company is keeping quiet about details, the new line will have more power than the 105-h.p. 200s, appear without the rear-fender fins that Mercedes picked up from Detroit...
That view has its encouraging side in this time of lagging sales of durable goods, most notably in the strike-afflicted auto industry. Though Detroit is still feeling strike effects-auto sales in the first ten days of December were running 12% behind last year-the industry continues to count on a sharp rise on 1968 sales charts. One automaker, Henry Ford II, last week predicted that next year's car and truck sales will be up by 900,000, matching 1965's record sales of 9,300,000. Even if a demand-dampening tax increase is enacted...