Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...game at Capital Centre last April. 13. Atlanta--Dave Schultz [5:40, OT]; Rangers--Gary Dornhoefer; Bruins--Rick MacLeish from Andre "Moose" Dupont. 14. The New Haven Nighthawks of the AHL. 15. Pettie and Boston defeated Chicago, 4-2, in Chicago. 16. Rogie Vachon of Detroit. 17. 1970, when the Rangers and Montreal had identical records but New York won the spot on total regular season goals, 246-244. 18. Pierre Larouche, Pittsburgh Penguins, 20 years, 5 months. 19. 50 penalties. Islanders vs. Rangers, Zebra Ron Wicks. 20. Wayne Gretzky, Edmonton Oilers, 17 years old. 21. Boom-Boom Geoffreon, Denis...
...Hotel is to buy a $4 ticket to the film California Suite, and the Los Angeles Marriott, a 1,020-room slab within easy earshot of the airport runways, is expected to hit 100% occupancy for more than 150 days this year. The squeeze is much the same in Detroit (where guests sometimes have to settle for space in Ann Arbor, an hour's drive away), New York (where 1,000-and 2,000-room hotels are often fully booked), Atlanta (where a couple of large conventions had to be refused because there were no rooms for the requested...
...Teamsters in the manner of a magazine writer. The book consists of nine profiles of Teamsters and associates--looking at the institution through the people in it. The characters include Fitzsimmons, Tony Provenzano (the New Jersey Teamster/mobster who Brill says orchestrated Jimmy Hoffa's disappearance), Jimmy Hoffa Jr. (a Detroit labor lawyer outsider, waiting for his father to float to the top), Ron Carey (a rare, honest Teamster local president in New York), Allen Dorfman (who made millions from his insurance monopoly with the Teamsters, then helped loot the pension funds), Jackie Presser (Cleveland Teamster boss, jockeying to succeed Fitzsimmons...
Many afternoon papers that entered the morning field have shown similar gains. The Detroit News, which in the 1960s had a readership advantage of 174,000 over the morning Free Press, lost its lead in late 1975. The News then launched an "AM Edition" that has helped put it back in front of the Free Press...
...clubs, including some whose only members are grandmothers and others that concern themselves with the show's most minor characters, such as Mr. Spock's bride, who has had all of five lines. More than 50 books, not counting graduate theses, have been written, and a Detroit station has been running the program every day for nine years. In honor of the show, the White House even renamed the new space shuttle Enterprise...