Word: detroit
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PAPER LION, by George Plimpton. The lowly Detroit Lions of 1963 may outlive Green Bay, enshrined as they are in Plimpton's humorous prose. Plimpton tried out for the team with disastrous results, but his memoir of pro football is a long gainer for the fan and the nonfan as well...
...majority. Father Paul C. Reinert will step aside as board chairman-to be replaced by Daniel L. Schlafly, a layman. Chicago's Loyola University said that for the first time in its 97-year history laymen will be named as trustees. Still another Jesuit School, the University of Detroit, will turn over half the seats on a new 16-man trustee board to the laity...
...Detroit's perennial peeves is the spare tire: it is infrequently used, adds weight, wastes space, and costs some $170 million a year. American Motors did away with it in one 1965-66 model - only to get a flock of gripes. But the industry has not yet given up the fight on the fifth wheel. Later this month, Pontiac showrooms will have the sporty new Firebird, which has the same body shell as its G.M. cousin, the Chevrolet Camaro, but is four inches longer. The standard Fire bird is more powerful than the Camaro (165 h.p. as compared with...
...Detroit has responded by talking up its electric-car research, demonstrating new batteries and fuel cells, and driving newsmen around in battery-powered compact cars. And Ford President Arjay Miller insists that a crash program is on to build an electric car. But most auto officials believe that between five and ten years will pass before moderately priced electric cars can be produced in volume. In Washington last week, to emphasize the need for electric cars, New York Democratic Representative Richard Ottinger drove an electric Dauphine, powered by silver-zinc batteries (developed by New York's Yardney Electric Corp...
Married. Eleanor Clay Ford, 20, Detroit debutante with two Fords in her family, her mother, who was Edsel Ford's only daughter, and her industrial-designer father, whose ancestors (no cars, no kin) were Michigan high society long before the first Model T; and Frederic Avery Bourke Jr., 20, a junior at the University of Michigan...