Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...always had a healthy wariness of athletes," says TIME'S Detroit Correspondent Joseph Kane. "Perhaps it's their size, but I'm always afraid that a question about their shortcomings will bring a punch in the nose...
Since he was responsible for the bulk of the reporting on Detroit Pitcher Denny McLain, this week's cover subject, Kane had ample opportunity to test his theory. It proved to be unfounded. Kane's big problem was not belligerence; it was entirely a matter of timing. McLain kept moving so fast that Kane hardly had a chance to ask all the necessary questions. Kane found himself taking notes while chatting at the water fountain in the Tiger dugout, while chasing his man through hotel lobbies, in between sessions at a television studio and on the warm...
...those fears have not been realized. Last week, as millions of youngsters left the ghetto streets to return to school, the usual riot season more or less ended. During the summer there have been no disorders as big or bad as the holocausts that gutted Watts, Newark or Detroit in previous years. The U.S. had 286 racial disturbances from May through the end of August, but most were relatively small and short. Though practically any city could still blow, the summer of 1968 now ranks as the most tranquil since...
...Voice in Policy. White political, police and business chieftains have aided in other ways. Wisely, high officials in New York, Newark, Chicago, Detroit and other potentially explosive cities have begun holding regular dialogues with black militants and giving them a voice in schools, welfare, urban renewal, law enforcement and other policy matters that crucially affect Negro neighborhoods. In Detroit, which has only 328 blacks on its 4,656-man force, 40% of the cadets now in the police academy are Negroes. In several cases, black militants have been given local government jobs and other incentives to cool...
...losing a top man like Knudsen, just as Motorola was understandably distressed about losing Hogan. Yet, whatever the merits of Motorola's suit against Fairchild, the danger of executives carrying corporate secrets to a rival is generally not as great as it seems. Despite the secrecy fetish that Detroit makes about new models, almost everyone admits that automakers usually know all about one another's most guarded projects. It is often the same way in other industries. Says Michigan State's Jennings: "A secret is only a secret for a year or so anyway. And top executives...