Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chicago, police relations with the ghetto are extremely tense. Patrol cars roam slum streets with shotgun muzzles visible. As hostility to them rises, police become more prone to overreact, as they did in the Detroit incident, when they invaded the crowded Detroit church, guns blazing, in search of the snipers...
...prisoner squinted into the sunlight as he was led from the federal penitentiary at Lewisburg, Pa. Accompanied by a federal marshal, he was driven to his hometown of Detroit, where he was allowed a quick steak dinner at one of his favorite restaurants, Berman's Chop House. Immediately afterward, he was escorted to the Wayne County jail to be bedded down in Ward 512 with nine other prisoners. Early next morning he was taken to Chicago, to await hearings on his contention that his conviction for jury tampering was obtained with the help of illegal wiretaps. So went...
...expanding both pictorially and geographically. Check printers are turning out two-color "personality extension" checks that are supposed to give the account holder a choice of self-images: an American eagle for the patriot, cupids for the romantic, geometric patterns for orderly types. Manhattan's Irving Trust Co., Detroit's Bank of the Commonwealth and about 300 other banks now offer two-color checks decorated with hearts, psychedelic designs and even the peace symbol...
...largest users of Negro advertising are about 300 radio stations that spin soul music for predominantly black audiences. This market has created a need for specialists. Detroit's Carl Porter, a 28-year-old Wayne State graduate, has built up his Theme Productions by producing and selling radio commercials as we as distinctive, hard-rhythm station breaks. "We squeeze 50 tons of soul into six seconds," he says. Porter creates radio spots for Mustang Malt Liquor, Lanolin Plus Liquid, Mystery of Black Cosmetics and other products, and his billings are running at a rate of $450,000 this year...
Love Slaves. Resenting the man they miss is a common reaction among wives with severe separation pangs. "It's a natural reaction to be angry," says Detroit Psychiatrist Emanuel Tanay. "You certainly can't feel loving toward the source of your depression." One compensation is withdrawal into the solace of pills or liquor, or into a social frenzy that produces "emotional anesthesia." Other wives retaliate-occasionally with infidelity, more often by giving their returning husbands a chilly reception. "When he's away," one submariner's wife told Dr. Isay, "there's nothing on my mind...