Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kaiser Broadcasting signed Gordon up for a 10 p.m.-to-midnight Sunday TV show on Detroit's WKBD. Detroit Mayor Jerome P. Cavanagh, who displaced incumbent Miriani in 1962 thanks partly to Gordon's exposes, unsuccessfully sought to get his onetime friend and ally fired. His reason: Gordon had turned on Cavanagh, accusing him of borrowing money from appointees, heavy drinking, womanizing and generally following in the wayward footsteps of Miriani. In July, Gordon broke the news that the mayor's wife Mary had filed suit for separate maintenance. A few weeks ago, Gordon opened wounds again...
Scorned and reviled by many in Detroit for his personal abrasiveness and scandal-oriented journalism, Gordon remains unperturbed. His TV show has recently been expanded to two nights a week in Detroit and syndicated for pickup in Philadelphia and Boston. Moonlight muckraking adds $50,000 a year to Gordon's income, and as he points out proudly, "I have never been sued and have never had to make a retraction...
Despite the strike, the Ford Motor Co. last week displayed some of its leading entries in the 1968 model sweepstakes-and did it with a flair. Greeting the press at the La Costa Country Club in Carlsbad, Calif.-about as far from the Detroit picket lines as the company could get-Ford Division Manager M. S. ("Matt") McLaughlin buoyantly said that dealers will soon have 67,000 of the '68 models on hand. He also managed to seem happy while noting that 158,000 of the '67s are waiting to be sold at a buyer's price...
...Spoiler. Ford's new series, called the Torino, is an effort to cash in on Detroit's growing emphasis on sporty styling and intermediate size. Marketed with the Fairlane line, the Torino features the elongated hood and abbreviated rear end that has caught on in the specialty cars; it comes in hardtop, sedan and station wagon, as well as a racier "GT" model equipped with a 210-h.p. V-8 (engines with up to 390 h.p. are optional). The standard Fair-lanes have also been streamlined, their bodies stretched out by a full...
...A.M.C.'s $12 million account last June. The full measure of the agency's upstart audacity will become evident by the time its client's '68s go on sale next week. Abandoning the teasers, Wells, Rich, Greene will start hurling its barbs directly at Detroit's Big Three...