Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Still smarting from his hassle with the President on the need for federal troops in Detroit, Romney angrily told a press conference: "I think frankly that everything that President Johnson has done has been done on a political basis. I think he's a political animal...
Before the holocaust of Detroit, Michigan's Governor George Romney had worked out a timetable of international travels designed, like Richard Nixon's global peripatetics, to make him a Republican presidential candidate equipped by firsthand knowledge to deal with foreign policy. This month he was to tour Europe's capitals; he planned to visit South Viet Nam in November for his second personal look...
...summer's riots have changed his itinerary. Though he has not previously had any such deep involvement in urban problems, his embroilment in Detroit has caused him to switch his priorities. Just before the Midwestern Governors' Conference opened at Missouri's Lake of the Ozarks last week, Romney announced that he will spend this month touring the nation's cities, postponing his expeditions to Europe and Viet Nam until later this year...
Fluffing for or by news media is the root cause for many an abused statistic. Newsmen during the Detroit race riots pressed a harried fire chief for damage estimates. His guess...
teams in succession - the Detroit Lions (13-7) and the Minnesota Vikings (14-9). And the same Kansas City Chiefs who were buried 35-10 by Green Bay in the Super Bowl last January gave George Halas' N.F.L. Chicago Bears one of the worst drubbings in their 47-year history, 66-24. "The Chiefs gave every indication they could play as good as any team in the National Football League," said Halas. Any team, perhaps, except the Green Bay Packers...