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Word: detroit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Stiles' first-place performance in the pole vault, along with the two-mile relay team's third-place effort, boosted Harvard to an awesome seventh place overall finish at the NCAA indoor track championships at Detroit this weekend...

Author: By Nell Scovell, | Title: Stiles Captures Pole Vault at NCAAs | 3/12/1979 | See Source »

Officially still undecided about challenging Jimmy Carter for the Democratic presidential nomination, Brown made it perfectly clear that he is already running hard. As he set off on a six-day campaign-testing trip to Washington, New York and Detroit, he sat among the commoners at the rear of the tourist section on TWA's Flight 890, alternately signing autographs for fellow passengers and consulting a thick red briefing book entitled "Economics of a Balanced Federal Budget." His goal, he said, was "to launch a national debate on amending the Constitution to balance the federal budget...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Brown's Budget Balancing Act | 3/12/1979 | See Source »

...people keep wondering about Brown's style. One of his questioners in Detroit asked whether Brown, if elected President, would actually move into the White House. Said Brown: "I thought you'd ask whom I would move in with. But I refuse comment on either question...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Brown's Budget Balancing Act | 3/12/1979 | See Source »

...behind this comic madness is the product of a comfortable but solitary upbringing. The last child of a Ford Motor Co. vice president, Williams grew up in Chicago, the Detroit suburbs and Tiburon, near San Francisco. When left alone, he summoned up his own world, maneuvering his toy soldiers and cloning his own versions of wacky Jonathan Winters characterizations like Maude Frickert. After two stabs at college in California, he moved to New York City to study acting. For spending money, he and a partner did white-faced comedy mime in front of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, occasionally matching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Manic of Ork: Robin Williams | 3/12/1979 | See Source »

...slogans, along with the famous "Sign of the cat" for Lincoln-Mercury. The theme at Chrysler will be engineering, and Astronaut Neil Armstrong will apparently remain as the corporate spokesman. Whether K&E will be able to improve the fading Chrysler quality image is a major question. Says a Detroit ad agency chief: "Iacocca could not quickly change the company's cars, so he changed what he could-the advertising...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: A Better Idea? | 3/12/1979 | See Source »

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