Word: detroit
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...Marching In. He divorced Anne, his wife of 24 years, in 1964 to marry Maria Cristina Vettore Austin, a divorced Italian jet-setter. That marriage broke up in 1980, and the settlement cost Henry an estimated $15 million. He married Kathleen DuRoss, at the time an operator of a Detroit disco, later that year...
Ford was serious about using the family name for worthy causes. After the Detroit race riots in 1967 left 43 dead, Ford headed an effort to find jobs for blacks. He lent his name and money to the building of Detroit's Renaissance Center, a financial flop that lost an estimated $140 million in its first four years and had to be refinanced...
...baseball has been caught up in equipment this year. But when everything was finally sanded off and boiled away, after the New York Mets were ground into powder and Reggie Jackson evaporated entirely, the Minnesota Twins, the San Francisco Giants and the St. Louis Cardinals awaited either Toronto or Detroit and this week's play-offs...
...Twins, Giants, Cardinals and Tigers looked the A's, Reds, Mets and Blue Jays square in the eyes. The Twins' and Giants' courses were set with August sweeps, while the Cardinals' and Tigers' seasons turned on a last out in New York and teetered on a final weekend in Detroit. Impeccable Tiger Pitcher Doyle Alexander (9-0) made sure the race would at least go the natural limit, if not to a 163rd game, while the Twins stood...
...baseball since leaving a North Carolina farm for Brooklyn in 1955 to pitch in the first big league game he ever saw. He was a 20-game loser (twice) for Casey Stengel's fledgling Mets. Recently he coached Sparky Anderson's pitchers to a World Series championship in Detroit and revolutionized that staff and others with his proliferating invention, the split-finger fastball. Late in a summer of 100 losses, the Giants summoned Craig from retirement in 1985. "I've known many kinds of fun," he remembered last week, "but nothing like this." When the earth moved, Craig instinctively reached...