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Allen Dorfman, above all else, was a survivor. Introduced to the young Jimmy Hoffa in 1949, when the future Teamsters boss was but an ambitious union leader in Detroit, Dorfman parlayed that friendship into a multimillion-dollar insurance empire whose most lucrative account was the union's Central States Health and Welfare Fund. From 1958 to 1971, when Hoffa headed the Teamsters, Dorfman emerged as his powerful lieutenant. Before Hoffa was led off to jail in 1967 for jury tampering, he told subordinates, "When Dorfman speaks, he speaks...
...description of Chicago at the beginning of the century was every bit as accurate for the rest of the Midwest. With its raw energy and perpetual motion, the nation's heartland was synonymous with prosperous cities. Over the years, Chicago became identified with hogs, Toledo with glass, Detroit with automobiles, Akron with rubber. Youngstown with steel, Peoria with Caterpillar tractors.Today, however, in the cities that once were flagships of the region, unemployment has risen higher than in any other area of the U.S. Hit first and hardest by the recession, the Midwest may be the last region...
...DETROIT. When the Lions played the Washington Redskins in the first round of the N.F.L. playoffs, Detroit sportscasters suggested throwing the football game. "Let's not rile Washington any more," cautioned one radio announcer. "We need a win in Congress more than we need a win for the Lions." The Motor City has got neither. With unemployment at 20% overall, and nearly 35% for blacks, Mayor Coleman Young last month declared a "hunger emergency." City agencies estimate that as many as one-third of the city's 1.2 million residents go to bed hungry every night. The Federal...
...Detroit 6, Vancouver...
Built by a consortium led by Henry Ford II, Ren Cen consists of a 73-story hotel and four 39-story office buildings. Since it opened in 1977, the center has lost $140 million, prompting the Detroit Free Press to call it "perhaps the country's largest white elephant." Ren Cen first fell behind on its mortgage in 1980, but managed to renegotiate its payment schedule. Nonetheless, as unemployment in Detroit surged, the center remained in the red. Some 40% of its space for retail stores is empty; 95% of its office area is occupied, but only at deeply...