Word: detroit
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...state that Detroit has adopted a new police weapon known as the "nutcracker" [Feb. 28]. This is completely incorrect. The Detroit police department has not adopted such a weapon, we have not issued any to officers, we have not ordered or purchased any, and we do not intend to order or purchase...
...difficult to understand how you can write of "Detroit's success with the instrument" when we have never even had any experience with it. It is also difficult to comprehend how you can quote a "Detroit police official" as saying, "With six men carrying the sticks, we can penetrate 50 men and bust up their formation and come back out," when, in fact, the weapon has never been used in any crowd-control situation in Detroit or by Detroit police officers...
JOHANNES F. SPREEN Commissioner Department of Police Detroit...
...TIME erred. The police departments of some independent Detroit suburbs have adopted the nutcracker, and some individual Detroit policemen have bought the device on their own, but it was never part of Detroit's official equipment and Commissioner Spreen has since banned its use altogether...
Unleashing his best throw ever, big Charlie Ajootian picked up Harvard's only victory in the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships this weekend at Detroit's Cobo Arena. His first-place throw accounted for five of the Crimson's eight points in the meet...