Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...what has happened since. The Chicago Black Hawks, who won the N.H.L. race by 17 points last year, have managed only three victories in twelve games this year, rank dead last in the East Division. Next, there is the curious collapse of Roger Crozier, the talented young (25) Detroit Red Wings goalie, who only three seasons ago was the N.H.L.'s Rookie of the Year; last week, after giving up 18 goals in three games, Crozier quit the sport...
...with the emotionally disturbed have become standard fixtures in U.S. seminaries. This semester, for example, 82 Harvard divinity students are working as apprentice counselors in mental hospitals and other institutions as part of their training. Workshops in pastoral counseling for parish ministers have mushroomed. The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit holds a weekly seminar for priests conducted by a psychiatrist; more than 500 clergymen now study annually at the famed Menninger psychiatric clinic in Topeka, Kans. In many U.S. cities, churches have established their own mental-health clinics, manned by both psychiatrists and clergymen trained in counseling...
...methodical type that he draws up a written budget of time to be allotted to his wife, his three children and his business. It was only natural that just before leaving school, he drew up a list of cities in which he might like to practice corporate law. Detroit was low on the list because its "environment" was poor. But its law firms were first-rate, and eventually Parsons managed to convince himself that Detroit was his city. He joined a firm there that put him to work on the affairs of its biggest client, the Detroit Bank & Trust...
...when Parsons set out to establish his own law firm in Birmingham, he had already seen enough of Detroit banking to decide that it was too conservative. By drawing on his own inheritance from a grandfather and tapping friends, Parsons got together $650,000 and mounted a challenge to Detroit bankers within their own 25mile limit. In a small Birmingham office building, he founded the Birmingham-Bloomfield Bank. It may not have looked like much, but it had Saturday banking for suburbanites, lower charges on checking accounts, and it paid 3% on savings rather than the general...
...Quarrel. When Atlas Credit Corp., a Philadelphia-based investment company, offered $77.50 a share to gain control of Detroit's fourth-largest Commonwealth Bank, Parsons cancelled a business trip to Chicago, huddled for 24 hours with his partners. It would have been ambitious enough just to try for a slice of the bank, but the young partners decided that nothing could be quite so satisfying as complete control. They bettered Atlas' offer by fifty cents a share, organized a public relations campaign that stressed the advantages of hometown ownership. Within three days, after tender offers were counted, Parsons...