Word: detroit
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RALPH L. POLK Chairman, Board of Directors R.L. Polk&Co. Detroit...
N.F.L. FOOTBALL (CBS, 4 p.m. to conclusion). Minnesota Vikings v. Detroit Lions at Detroit...
...Curtis LeMay, carried Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas and Georgia. Nowhere in the industrial Northern states did he wrench away a massive blue-collar vote. In Boston's working-class districts, for example, Humphrey tallied 74% of the vote to Wallace's 24%. In poorer white sections of Detroit, pre-election Wallace partisans flocked back to the Democratic Party, joining Negroes, suburban whites and elderly voters to swing Michigan's 21 electoral votes to Humphrey by 151,-000 votes. Many Wallaceites also defected in Southern and Border states upon which he had counted. "They all talked hard," said...
...bestow two Cy Young awards, one for each league. Otherwise, how could they have selected the outstanding pitcher of 1968? In the American League, there was Denny McLain, 24, the Peck's Bad Boy (TIME cover, Sept. 13) who posted an astounding 31-6 record to lead the Detroit Tigers to their first pennant in 23 years. In the National League, the St. Louis Cardinals' Bob Gibson, 33, boasted equally stunning statistics: a 22-9 record that included a phenomenal 13 shutouts. The voting last week was unanimous. Mc-Lain for the American League; Gibson for the National...
Better in Stacks. Instant-housing projects, often financed through public housing authorities, have also appeared in such cities as Atlanta, Rochester and Detroit. Many of the modules come from mobile-home manufacturers, whose ever-increasing output (up 32% this year) now accounts for a quarter of all single-family homes built in the U.S. Mobile homes ordinarily win few architectural prizes, but lately builders have learned how to stack them in handsome configurations. At Puffton Village in Amherst, Mass., for instance, Magnolia Homes teamed up with a developer to create a striking community of 104 apartments from...