Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...puffing, peace-seeking Quaker, "the bargaining process is working reasonably well." But the remaining 12% of the disputes present major headaches for industry and for the economy as a whole. If the Ford strike lasts until Thanksgiving, former CEA Chairman Walter Heller last week warned the Economic Club of Detroit, the resulting drop in the gross national product could reach $4 billion...
Although Negro students by and large reject Detroit-style rioting as deplorable, they are willing to use the threat of violence to gain their campus goals. At no school has that threat proved more effective than at California's San Jose State College (enrollment: 23,000), where a mere 60 Negro students last month threatened to burn the campus down unless discrimination against them was stopped. The students' leader, Sociology Teacher Harry Edwards, a towering (6 ft. 8 in.) former San Jose basketball star, contended that Negro students could not find decent housing in San Jose, Negro athletes...
While labor negotiations at strike-bound Ford and the other auto companies wore on last week, a finale of sorts was reached in another regular Detroit drama: the annual reshuffling of new-model prices...
...locker rooms of the Detroit Athletic Club, and at the 19th hole of the Bloomfield Hills Country Club, the guessing game has been going on for months. Who will move up when General Motors Chairman Frederic G. Donner steps down...
...within a matter of hours after Detroit lost that final game, it became inconceivable that it could ever have been otherwise. The following article is reprinted, purely out of historical interest, from an era when it could very easily have been otherwise, namely August 1, 1967. It appeared then in the Harvard Summer News. Here is how the Red Sox looked to an impartial observer barely two months...