Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...upon the ominous words of the historian of Rome (Livy): "Then let him observe how when discipline wavered, morality first tottered and then began the headlong plunge, until it has reached the present stale of affairs when we can tolerate neither our vices nor their remedies." CARLOS M. BARANANO Detroit...
With the off-year elections ended and the jockeying for 1968 started in earnest, George Romney was wasting no time slipping into his silks. This, week some 600 Republicans from across the country will crowd Detroit's riverfront Veterans' Memorial Building to hear what is being billed as a major announcement by Michigan's Governor. It was hardly probable he would go to such lengths to declare that he does not intend to seek the G.O.P. presidential nomination...
Fortunately for its director, the youthful (average age: 22) Harkness troupe is fully up to such dramatic demands. Some of its brightest stars are Americans-Lawrence Rhodes of Detroit, who brings to Dead Boy and Time Out of Mind an overwhelming sense of racking passion under superb muscular control, and New Yorker Brunilda Ruiz, an agile, high-leaping prima ballerina. The company's foreign-born dancers, ranging in origin from Iceland to Japan, have been carefully selected for their adaptability to an "American" style. That style, explains Macdonald, is the best in the world for new ballet. "Americans...
Ford was also burdened by another of Detroit's now familiar auto recalls...
...continue to open branches in the suburbs. Many old-line retailers have also drawn on their familiarity with bargain-basement merchandising to open "budget stores"; in Columbus next year, Ohio-based Federated Department Stores will branch out with its first two Gold Circle discount houses. Like other department stores, Detroit's J. L. Hudson Co. meets cut-rate competition with a we-won't-be-undersold policy: "You pay no more at Hudson's-Tell us if we're wrong...