Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...because of a freak injury to their own field general. While lobbing passes in a warmup drill before the Los Angeles Rams game three weeks ago, Starr unaccountably pulled the biceps muscle in his throwing arm, watched from the sidelines as the Rams toppled his teammates 16-14. Against Detroit a week later, Starr entered the game for one play, painfully flipped a 3-yd. touchdown pass...
...prevented. Pete Beathard of the Houston Oilers (record: 3-5-0) was rushed to the hospital last month for an emergency appendectomy, while winless Philadelphia's Norm Snead, trying to make a tackle after an interception, turned sharply and broke his ankle in a preseason game against the Detroit Lions. Baltimore has had to rely on a stubborn defense and second-string Signal Caller Earl Morrall ever since Johnny Unitas, the N.F.L.'s Most Valuable Player last year, "felt something pop" during a preseason exhibition against Dallas. That something turned out to be his elbow joint. Johnny...
...also lives very much in the present, and his roving eye takes in the topical as well as the topographical. Black Day in July is a commentary on the 1967 Detroit riots...
Joseph Strickland, reporter for the Detroit News, will discuss "Reverend Albert B. Cleague, Jr.: The Black American and Christianity." at 8 p.m. tonight in the Kirkland House...
Refuting a Critic. Much to Detroit's surprise, General Motors carried its defense of competition to the point of providing a peek at some of its costing policies, normally a matter of utmost secrecy. The company estimated that its labor costs average about $1,000 per car, or 32% of each sales dollar. It put tooling costs at $134 per car, for styling and other changes. The figures were aimed at refuting charges by Auto Critic Ralph Nader, who in July asserted that "the direct and indirect labor in a medium-priced car doesn't exceed...