Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What do the Republican Party and Detroit have in common? "The tendency on the part of some people to write them off as dead," Michigan Governor William Milliken said to the Republican National Committee in Washington. But, in fact, Milliken contended, both party and city are reviving...
...York 108, Detroit...
Major coke dealers have bought furniture factories, which churn out coke-filled lamps and stools for the discerning buyer. Forty pounds of coke was recently seized in a load of South American furniture being trucked from Grand Rapids to Detroit. Compressing machines have allowed exporters to conceal their coke inside products ranging from record jackets to water skis. Cocaine can even be dissolved in liquor or perfume (it is easily recovered after passing customs). Water containing dissolved cocaine can be soaked into cotton clothes and retrieved days later with a loss of only about 10%. Middle-size traders often hire...
Bario was a policeman in his native Italy until 1960, when he met his first wife and followed her to Detroit and then Washington. There he got a job as an investigator for the IRS Intelligence Division, infiltrating organized crime syndicates in Boston, New Orleans and Detroit. He became a federal narcotics agent in 1969. He is believed to have posed as a gambler in the Bahamas, dropping federal money at the roulette wheels of Paradise Island. He liked to wear Cardin suits and Dior shirts. Acting under cover, he became the lover of the mistress of a French heroin...
...longest NHL game ever ended at 116:30 of overtime when Mud Bruneteau scored to give Detroit a 1-0 victory over the Montreal Maroons on March 24, 1936. Who got the assist...