Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Aquinas Murphy, 62, chairman of General Motors Corp., is a casual fellow with gray Brillo hair, thick bookkeeper's spectacles, a heap of optimism and no pretenses. From his 14th-floor corner office behind security-locked glass doors in the Gen eral Motors Building, he looks out at Detroit's soaring Renaissance Center, which is the city's multimillion-dollar bet on its own future, and to him the view is bright...
...ensconced as a gentleman farmer on a 4,000-acre country estate with his wife and children. Threatened with deportation once Costa Rica's President-elect, Rodrigo Carazo, takes office in May, Vesco applied for citizenship, listing his nationality as Italian (he was born in Detroit but claimed the nationality of his father). Trouble is, Italy and Costa Rica never bothered to sign a peace treaty after World War II and, according to Costa Rica's Attorney General's office, are still technically at war. Vesco is therefore an "enemy alien" and ineligible for citizenship. Vesco insists...
...Detroit 112, Chicago...
...Harvard lost seven of its first nine contests; and when people heard about the squandering of large halftime leads against Fordham (39-29), Detroit (40-26), and Connecticut (47-31), they wondered aloud if Francis was neither saint nor saviour...
Morial said the greatest increase in black officials occured in the number of black mayors in major U.S. cities such as Los Angeles, Detroit, Atlanta, and New Orleans...