Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). Telecast live from Cobo Hall, Detroit, the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships...
...take over the 1,800,000-man union in the event of his own "absence." A onetime bus driver and dockworker, the portly Fitzsimmons has an avuncular appearance that belies his 31-year career as a Teamster organizer, mostly with Hoffa's tough home local, No. 299, in Detroit...
...laced Tom Wolfe, he milks the various segments of the American elite for all they are worth and then uses the material for novels. Past Gilbert victims include the prestigious families of Westchester (Silver Spoon), the wealthy American businessmen in France (The New Ambassadors), and the automobile society in Detroit (American Chrome). Now Gilbert wants to tell us about the rich of New York City, the beautiful people of Park Avenue who grace the back pages of Time magazine. He's discovered something, out boy. As he puts it, "WEALTH and WITH-ITness. BLUE-BLOODED HIPSTERISM. All the most INteresting...
...higher costs for the services performed. Other reasons for the drop in sales are uncertainty over Viet Nam, credit restrictions caused by last fall's tight-money crisis and, as far as autos are concerned, customer worries about safety. Last week the safety problem loomed anew for Detroit: Ford announced that it is recalling 217,000 Thunderbirds, Falcons, Fairlanes, Comets, Mustangs and Cougars because of possible flaws in their power brakes or power steering...
Shopping Around. With their overseas push barely under way, the Japanese are fearful that other countries' automakers, particularly Detroit, will soon try to return the compliment in force. So far, a foreign invasion has been held off by high (up to 40%) auto-import tariffs and a stiff capital-investment law that limits foreign ownership to 50% of any new venture and 15% of any existing Japanese firm. Japan is under strong world pressure to ease that law, and Ford is said to be shopping around for permanent residences...