Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Each man boasts a progressive record as an administrator: Austin is credited with having helped to bring order to county finances, Gribbs cleaned up corruption in the county sheriff's office. Yet both remain unknown quantities. Neither Austin nor Gribbs has announced his plans for solving Detroit's problems-a disheartening array of urban ills, including crime, poverty, inadequate schools and lack of funds...
Little known last spring even among blacks, Austin was not the first choice of the city's black politicians. They sought William Patrick Jr., president of New Detroit, the community organization created to revive the city after the riots. Patrick would not run, so Austin became the black hope. The odds against his beating Gribbs in November are high. In the primary, Austin polled only 9% of the white vote. Detroit's population is about 40% Negro, but only an estimated 25% of the city's eligible voters are black. Gribbs will attract not only white moderates...
...visitors were, in fact, American tourists-San Marinese émigrés who had left the tiny republic in the Apennines of northern Italy years ago to settle in New York, Detroit and Sandusky, Ohio. But they were in the right queue. With their families, 450 San Marinese had enthusiastically boarded jets holding tickets paid for by the republic's Christian Democratic Party. Their mission was to help the Christian Democrats, leaders of the coalition that has ruled the country since 1957, stave off a ballot-box challenge by San Marino's Communist Party...
...hang on to all but one of the 39 seats that it was defending in the 60-man council. If the well-heeled Christian Democrats thought the airlift worth the $64,000 or more that it cost the party, so did the shuttle voters. Said Secondo Moretti, a Detroit bricklayer: "I'd travel twice as far as this to vote as long as they...
...values and red, white and blue patriotism. But, in this day of the rebellious young, the Establishment has seldom had a friend so true as Pamela Anne Eldred, Miss America 1970. After convincing the judges with a ballet routine and a 34-21-34 figure, the blonde coed from Detroit held forth for the press. The Viet Nam war was right, she reasoned, because otherwise the Government would never have gotten into it. "I feel that the people who were voted into office must have the intelligence to know what to do," said Pamela Anne. Sighed a middle-aged pageant...