Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...qualities that the Republican Party will prize most highly in its 1968 presidential candidate is the ability to pull in nominees for lesser office on Election Day. Last week Michigan's Governor George Romney demonstrated once again his powers of coattail propulsion. Largely through his efforts, an unknown Detroit advertising man, Anthony Licata, 48, won a special election for the Michigan House of Representatives against James P. Hoffa, 26, Jimmy's boy. Beamed Winner Licata: "People promised to vote for me because they wanted to do what the Governor wanted...
...vote was close-5,864 to 5,706 -but even a majority of one would have had the weight of a landslide. The 19th District in northwest Detroit has sent only Democrats to the state house of representatives since the district was formed in 1953. The reputation of Hoffa pere, which might have been fatal in many constituencies, was a boon in the 19th, with its large population of union members, many of whom feel the imprisoned Teamster boss got a bum rap. The Teamsters and the United Auto Workers went all out to elect young Hoffa, who even...
SOCK IT TO ME! (New Voice). The title song sounds the keynote to the frenzied demands of Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels, the ear-splitting hot-rods of white rhythm 'n' blues, also known as blue-eyed soul. "Sock it to me, baby, gimme, gimme, gimme," screams Mitch, sounding pretty clear about what he wants. "I'd rather go to jail than to see you get away," he persists. The boys used to call themselves the Young Degenerates...
...Seattle Times is no more frank than dozens of latter-day women's pages, which deal with feminine vices and afflictions hitherto reported else where in the paper - if at all. Reporting on the ways and means of Detroit's 6,000 prostitutes, the women's page of the Detroit Free Press ranked them from chippies who settle for a good meal and a night on the town, to street walkers working at the beck of pimps and call of drugs, to expensive suburban call girls who keep Fanny Hill-style notes on their clients' bedroom...
...wide-ranging analysis of alienated students-the bored, the unhappy, the apathetic-University of Wisconsin Psychiatrist Seymour L. Halleck told a meeting of the American Psychiatric Association in Detroit last week: "Smoking marijuana has become almost an emblem of alienation. The alienated student realizes that the use of 'pot' mortifies his parents and enrages authorities." Unable to change a flawed world, the alienated also seek a quick, "autoplastic adjustment" in themselves: "They can create a new inner reality simply by taking a pill or smoking a marijuana cigarette...