Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Little Kitchen, an 18-seat restaurant on Manhattan's Lower East Side, got such good newspaper reviews that its Negro owner-cook, who calls herself "Princess Pamela," finally closed the place for three weeks last month to get a rest. In Detroit, Charlie Red, owner of a soul-food takeout business who is known locally as the "King of Wings," reports that orders from whites for his fried chicken wings in barbecue sauce have nearly quintupled in the past two months. The craze has even spread to Paris, where Leroy Haynes, an expatriate Chicagoan, serves Spanish yams and African...
...fears that voters may turn to the extreme left or right. Italian industry has had a renaissance because competition has forced it to look outward and adopt imaginative methods-and Agnelli believes that there is a lesson here for the government. "The trouble is that we compete with Detroit," he says, "but Rome doesn't have to compete with Washington." Industry has finally given Italy a modern economy. Now the job is to make the state and society fully modern...
...father was killed in a plane crash; ten years later, his half-American mother died in an auto accident. Gianni was raised largely by English governesses (he speaks impeccable English) and by his relentlessly entrepreneurial grandfather. He recalls that "we always wanted to know what was going on in Detroit"-and at 18 he was sent on a two-month auto tour of the U.S. Gianni saw World War II from both sides, first as a tank officer on the Russian front. After Italy withdrew from the war in 1943, he joined an Italian outfit that fought alongside General Mark...
Almost alone among European car makers, Fiat has adopted Detroit's successful technique of expanding its model lines as its market grows more affluent. In 1964, Fiat introduced its 850, a mightier mouse but cheap enough (at $1,280) to sell well in that year's recession. Since then, largely at Gianni's urging, Fiat has followed Il Boom with medium-priced cars and then luxury models. In all, the company now builds 20 models, including its sporty 124, which is becoming Europe's Mustang, and the Fiat-Dino, a 120-m.p.h. job that costs...
...Where do the Detroit Red Wings play? (In what arena...