Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Among the 105 beds at a shelter for the homeless in downtown Detroit, a downtrodden woman starts to tell a story that at first seems all too familiar. But in this case neither hunger nor cold drove her to the facility. The woman fled her neighborhood because of the local crack epidemic. "Every other house has turned into a cocaine house," she explains. "I decided to move out so I wouldn't get addicted...
...strange is happening to the way cars are steered. Like so many technological advances these days, this one was made in Japan. Honda and Mazda began showing 1988 models with four-wheel steering in U.S. showrooms in September, and san and Mitsubishi are expected to follow quickly. Detroit's carmakers say they are still studying what is turning out to be the most talked about automotive innovation of the year...
...while skeptics have emphasized Harvard's youth corps, they have forgotten a few things about the team's 15 returning lettermen--led by Captain Steve Armstrong and sophomore C.J. Young. These are the players who helped win an ECAC title. The players who went to the Final Four in Detroit last year. The ones who were there before when it counted the most...
...Stanley, Dick Thompson, Nancy Traver, Bruce van Voorst New York: Bonnie Angelo, Mary Cronin, Margot Hornblower, Jennifer Hull, Eugene Linden, Thomas McCarroll, Jeanne McDowell, Raji Samghabadi Boston: Robert Ajemian, Joelle Attinger, Melissa Ludtke, Lawrence Malkin Chicago: Gavin Scott, Barbara Dolan, Lee Griggs, Harry Kelly, J. Madeleine Nash, Elizabeth Taylor Detroit: B. Russell Leavitt Atlanta: Joseph J. Kane, Don Winbush Houston: Richard Woodbury Miami: Cristina Garcia Los Angeles: Dan Goodgame, Jonathan Beaty, Elaine Dutka, Jon D. Hull, Michael Riley, James Willwerth, Denise Worrell San Francisco: Paul A. Witteman...
...opened his bomb bay over Chicago. During a visit he branded the school system America's worst, with a dropout rate of 45% and achievement scores for many schools in the bottom 1% nationwide. Chicago officials were not pleased. After all, surveys have put New York City's and Detroit's dropout rates higher. Chicago Mayor Harold Washington angrily countercharged that Ronald Reagan "has literally dismantled public education in this country." Last week, after saying "the mayor doesn't know what the hell he is talking about," Bennett went to tiny (pop. 350) Missouri City to pronounce its one-school...