Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After working out for two days on the Detroit Tiger's practice field in Lakeland, Fla., the squad met the Florida Southern nine. Coach Norm Shepard used three pitchers, and alternated fifteen other players in the field to get a good look at his squad. Still, Harvard led until the bottom of the ninth when Southern scored the winning...
...death-there were 282 arrests, 62 injuries and one fatality: a 16-year-old Negro shotgunned by police. Nightfall brought double the usual number of fires, most of them in uncollected garbage piled along curbs. Damage was estimated at $400,000-modest by the standards of Watts and Detroit...
...growing market for high-performance "street iron," triggered by the introduction of the Ford Mustang in 1964, Detroit is offering an increasingly wide array of hot intermediate-sized "muscle" cars, and an even wider range of optional extras designed to make them hotter still. At the International Auto Show in Manhattan last week, the muscle cars were there in force, from Plymouth's Road Runner to Pontiac's Firebird, and they made an obvious hit with visitors. Says Ray Brock, publisher of Hot Rod magazine: "The high-performance buff can now literally 'build' his own individualized...
Married. George Plimpton, dervish of the Manhattan whirl, sometime author and would-be athlete, who pitched against baseball's All-Stars, quarterbacked the Detroit Lions and boxed against Archie Moore, but couldn't get himself to the altar until he was 41; and Freddy Espy, 26, Manhattan photo-studio assistant, a petite, slightly bewildered blonde whom he met at a party in 1963; in Manhattan. Considering the wait, George was in a positive sprint. Poor Freddy didn't find out until 10:30 a.m., seven hours before her wedding. Peter Duchin's wife, Cheray, who fixed...
Boston's new North American League soccer team the Beacons, opens its first season with a game against the Oakland Clippers in San Diego on Sunday, March 31. The Beacons' home schedule begins at Fenway Park on April 23 with a match against the Detroit Cougars...