Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Astronomer Sagan is quoted as saying: "I really doubt that the city slickers of the universe are all that interested in us." Is he kidding? "Galactic boondock" we may be, Dullsville we're not! Think of the fascinating things we're getting up to in Red China, Detroit, Viet Nam, etc. I'm surprised our visitors haven't set up huge airborne bleachers to accommodate all those "city slickers of the universe" who might fancy one of those good-bad films once in a while...
...Your Essay, "Violence in America" [July 28], succeeded in presenting and, with characteristic guile, dismissing this contemporary problem-or rather catharsis-which demands much more than "effective law enforcement" and "elimination of the ghetto," as you succinctly put it. Detroit was decimated with death and $500 million worth of damage, by riot, or perhaps revolt, against rather than for something...
President Johnson strengthened local power and local responsibility by his action in Detroit, Archibald Cox, Samuel Williston Professor of Law and former U.S. Solicitor General has written in last Sunday's Boston Globe...
...parking meters last month, 74,524 were flip-top rings. Some 4,000 San Francisco meters were jammed by rings in the same period, and in New York, the traffic department is collecting about 20,000 rings a month. Elmer Ploof, in charge of parking-meter collections for Detroit, has stored in the city treasurer's safe two overflowing bushel baskets of rings taken from meters-out of sight perhaps, but not out of mind...
...must be moved farther and farther from the cities that passengers are trying to reach. As a re sult, estimates U.S. Aviation Consultant Laszlo Boszormenyi, a New Yorker fly ing to Washington in a short-range jet now actually averages only 79 m.p.h. midcity to midcity. On the Chicago-Detroit run, the pace drops to 66 m.p.h...