Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...infect American lives, though not quite as painfully as it did when the Johnson White House mobilized a war against it. But the poor have no publicity now. Still, Chicago has already had an ugly riot this year?an explosion in the Puerto Rican neighborhood around Humboldt Park. Detroit still has two rats for every human resident. Even so, the "long hot summers" of the '60s seem very far away...
...jail terms for contempt of the grand jury (refusal to answer questions) were not. Complaints about federal grand jury abuse have not been confined to the left, however. Last week General Motors Corp. Attorney George Moscarino accused IRS agents of abusing the system by summoning GM employees before a Detroit grand jury on what he considers to be a civil tax matter, presumably so they could be forced to testify without the aid of an attorney. In general, says U.S. Judge William J. Campbell, "the grand jury is the total captive of the prosecutor, who, if he is candid, will...
...Caught in a conflict between opportunity and conscience, or perhaps just worried about what their wives might think, most manufacturers and advertisers for a long time shied away. Liquor and tobacco advertisers, and makers of foreign cars and cameras have no such qualms, and their ads fill the magazines. Detroit-and General Motors in particular-has held off. Playboy attracts twice the advertising revenue of Penthouse but finds itself schizophrenically split, trying to stay audacious enough to hold its audience while discreet enough to reassure the advertiser. The trick, says one of its worried editors, is "how to become more...
...Midwest Enforcement Director James McDonald calls the consent decree a "monumental first" that will help the agency in bargaining with other companies and communities (including the city of Detroit) that resist its decrees. Says McDonald: "We are going to be very ties." firm One and seek indication of the substantial penal agency's hard line: before the consent decree, it had begun proceedings to make...
...market with their left hands. They have done little more than scale down existing models to meet the challenge of foreign competition. Chevrolet's Vega has been a dud; the Chevette is cramped and lacks style, and so does Ford's Pinto, despite its healthy sales. Detroit does share indirectly in the import boom through sales of autos built abroad by subsidiaries or affiliates of U.S. companies. That includes such models as the Dodge Colt, the Plymouth Arrow and the Buick Opel, all built in Japan, and the Lincoln-Mercury Capri, assembled in Germany. Ford expects to roll...