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Word: detroit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Each disorder and each irresponsible threat of upheaval lends credibility to his kind of campaign. Last week's election could cause ripples far beyond Los Angeles. Other cities share the tensions and fears that Yorty capitalized on. Mayoral elections this year and next in New York, Cleveland, Newark, Detroit and Atlanta could turn on substantially the same emotions. With Sam Yorty's example so clear before them, other candidates may well be tempted to exploit the racial issue with all the fervor of a Sam Yorty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Los Angeles: Bitter Victory | 6/6/1969 | See Source »

...Detroit is running an $8.9 million recreation program, and the police, who came in for heavy criticism for their role in the 1967 rioting, are preparing their own sports program for youth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE CITY: HOPE FOR THE SUMMER | 5/30/1969 | See Source »

...really optimistic," says William Schindler of the New Detroit Committee, "that we're in for a calm time." Mayor John Ballard of Akron has ordered more frequent garbage collections and improvement of ghetto property. Atlanta Mayor Ivan Allen has opened "little city halls" in Negro districts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE CITY: HOPE FOR THE SUMMER | 5/30/1969 | See Source »

Shotguns Approved. Many papers go along with the businesslike rationale of the Detroit Free Press. "We're a family newspaper," says Bill O'Flaherty, the national ad manager, "and there's no point in losing our readership by giving them what they don't want." His yardstick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Censorship: Laundering the Sheets | 5/30/1969 | See Source »

...Autos. Detroit is alarmed by Japanese auto exports to the U.S., which reached 110,000 cars last year. Instead of crying for quotas, U.S. auto men want to start producing in Japan, the only major non-Communist country that prohibits car manufacturing by foreigners. Under intense pressure by its trading partners, Japan has agreed to allow outsiders to buy up to a 50% interest in any of its auto firms-but not until 1972. By that time, the government hopes to have prodded Japan's twelve automakers into consolidating into two or three groups that would help them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trade: Hard Bargaining with Japan | 5/30/1969 | See Source »

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