Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Detroit...
...blocks from the White House, and from the air the capital looked like a bombed city. A three-mile reach of Chicago's Negro West Side erupted in pillage and cataclysmic flames that left an eight-block area in a state of devastation as severe as that of Detroit's ghetto last summer-yet at first Mayor Richard Daley failed, inexplicably, to impose a curfew. In Har lem, gleeful mobs cavorted and Mayor John Lindsay, though unharmed as he walked among them, was powerless to halt the orgy. Sniping, the most feared of ghetto tactics in summers past...
Within the churches, there is considerably less agreement on how this commitment should be exercised. Christian radicals-such as the young firebrands who dominated the National Council of Churches' Conference on Church and Society in Detroit last fall-argue that the true follower of Jesus is the revolutionary, siding with forces and events that seek to overthrow established disorder. On the other hand, Protestant Theologian Hans-Joachim Margull of Hamburg University points out that it is not always so easy to identify the secular causes that Christians have a clear moral duty to support...
Fozzle & Pleezy. Detroit's Sonny Eliot sees even more. Daily on WWJ he describes the weather as "colder than the seat of the last man on a short toboggan" or "uncomfortable as a swordfish with an ingrown nose." He sums up his forecasts as "fozzle" (fog and drizzle) crazy" (crisp and hazy), "pleezy" (pleasantly breezy) or "snowsy" (snow and lousy). He is thorny (thoroughly corny), but his report is the city's longest running (16 years) weather show and earns him $45,000 a year...
...Tiger price was right, and the mound ace was set last summer to sign a contract that would have let him finish his education. But when mono struck, Peters struck out with Detroit...