Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...just such a case arose in Michigan this year when the 27 judges of the Third Circuit Court brought a suit against Wayne County. They claimed that the county was illegally denying them enough clerks and probation officers to handle the heavy traffic in their circuit, which includes Detroit...
...judges were all litigants, who would preside over their case? The State Supreme Court appointed Judge William John Beer of the neighboring Sixth Circuit. To represent them, the judges hired a Detroit law firm. This vas one case, however, in which the attorneys clearly benefited from the advice of their clients. The plaintiffs' 50-page brief was dazzling in its logic and citations from past decisions...
...other large cities was spotty. In Los Angeles, 15 members of the Rams' 40-man football squad gave up practice because of the flu. In Denver, the Hong Kong virus was blamed for a significant increase in the number of deaths due to influenza and pneumonia. Chicago and Detroit were holding their breaths...
...Detroit is trying to recruit more and better repairmen for its dealers. General Motors, for example, conducts free training courses for high school graduates and offers similar courses for men in the armed forces just before they are discharged. American Motors uses eight vans to take the training classrooms to the mechanics because, as a company officer says, "the mechanics won't come to us." And Detroit also has plans for a longer-term solution. Within the next two years, Ford, G.M., and American Motors all intend to bring out cars that will be smaller, cheaper, less complex...
Just before the start of the 1960s, Edward N. Cole, then a General Motors vice president, exuberantly forecast that before the decade was over Detroit would sell 10 million cars in a year. Cole has since been promoted to the presidency of the world's biggest manufacturer, partly because of his record of seeing the future clearly, but his fellow automakers have yet to prove him right in his most optimistic prediction. This year, however, they will come tantalizingly close...