Word: detroit
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...continued to fight for civil rights legislation, and his successes will be a durable monument to the will of a Southerner who had earlier been less than zealous on the Negro's behalf. Still, in 1967, when Hubert Humphrey urged a "Marshall plan" for impoverished areas following the Detroit riots, Johnson quashed that kind of talk. And when the Kerner Commission last year made ambitious recommendations for helping the Negro-findings that could easily have been mistaken for earlier Johnsonian rhetoric -the President pouted in silence, apparently construing his own commission's work as a reproach to himself...
Lately, the non-Wasps have pursued them even there. A few years ago, Grosse Pointe, a Wasp suburb of Detroit, was notorious for rating prospective homeowners by a point system based on personal characteristics; Jews, Italians and "swarthy" persons almost invariably got so few points that they could not buy houses. Now all that has been abandoned, and Grosse Pointe has many Roman Catholic and Jewish residents. Downtown private clubs remain bastions of Wasp exclusiveness, but doors are opening. One recent example: Jews gained admission to the Kansas City Club in Kansas City, Mo., after an uproar over exclusionary policies...
...suit accuses Detroit of "hindering and delaying" the development of antipollution devices as far back as 1953. It focuses on a "blow-by" connection that cuts down the outflow of hydro carbons and carbon monoxide by feeding unburned gasoline in the crankcase back into the engine. The blow-by, developed by G.M., costs the consumer from $5 to $10. It has been used on a royalty-free basis on all cars, starting with 1963 models. According to the Justice Department, the automakers could have installed the blow-by connectors a year earlier but agreed among them selves on a delay...
...addition, the Government alleges that auto manufacturing executives lied by contending that it would be "technologically impossible" to introduce new exhaust-pollution-control devices on all 1966 models. They finally did so, says the Justice Department suit, only because companies out side the auto industry had developed similar devices. Detroit's car companies are also accused of using a cross-licensing agreement to restrict the prices that they would pay to outside companies for pollution-control patents...
Though no outside firms are identified in the Government suit, a number of them, including W. R. Grace and American Machine & Foundry, have developed devices for control of automobile exhaust pollution. In the case of those two companies, Detroit rejected their exhaust-control systems and adopted two of its own. Along with the older blow-by devices, the two newer systems are standard equipment - at a cost to the consumer of up to $50 each - on current Detroit models...