Word: detroit
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...work? In some cities, TV newsmen closely followed these guidelines and won praise from police and public officials alike. In New York, the stations balanced shots of East Harlem rioting with interviews with Puerto Rican moderates and Spanish-speaking police. In Detroit, TV held off reporting violence for twelve hours; only when it became obvious that the situation was out of control did the news go out. Reporters went out of their way to interview bewildered, law-abiding Negroes whose homes and property had been destroyed. The three TV stations in Cincinnati agreed not to interrupt regular programs with alarmist...
...most changes are, the automakers are counting on increased sales from the new cars. For the first seven months of calendar 1967, domestic car sales amounted to 4,600,000, down 9% from the same period in 1966. With the prospect of an auto workers' strike next month, Detroit has gone into full production on 1968 models in hopes of building up an inventory cushion...
...Angeles situation, 108 California insurance companies have formed a $15 million, assigned-risk "Watts pool" that has insured more than 500 merchants against fire and riot damage-though not against the threat of theft that such businessmen face daily. Similar plans are likely to emerge in both Newark and Detroit...
Swarming across riot-torn Detroit, an army of 400 insurance adjusters poked through the rubble for days, arrived at a damage estimate of $84 million. That was a far cry from the $500 million figure offered at one point by Detroit...
Understandably, the rioting in Detroit and in other U.S. cities has led to some alarm in the insurance industry. Insurers, says American Insurance Association President T. Lawrence Jones, are unhappy not only about the present rash of damage claims but also about "the potential losses from similar events in the future." Insurance companies will certainly try to cut their losses-especially for any future disturbances. "Those people in Detroit are going to pay a whale of a price," says James L. Bentley, president of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. Jones does not hesitate to predict that looting and arson...