Word: detroit
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...Kennedy and Johnson and later head of the World Bank; Chrysler Chairman Lee Iacocca; and Charles ("Tex") Thornton, who co-founded Litton Industries. Yet none of them ever claimed to understand the man they always addressed as Mr. Ford. When he died last week of complications from pneumonia in Detroit's Henry Ford Hospital, he was still unfathomable...
After Yale, Ford worked in the company's engineering department before going into the Navy in April 1941. But in August 1943, a month before his 26th birthday, Ford was released from active duty so that he could return to Detroit to help put the Ford Motor Co. back on its feet. Years of erratic one- man rule by old Henry had left the company a shambles, and the Government was afraid the firm would not be able to produce the amphibious vehicles and planes needed for the war effort...
Blyleven, acknowledged as having the best curveball in the league, was the winner of this one, allowing seven hits, walking one and striking out six in his first postseason outing since 1979 when he won one game each in the playoffs and World Series for the Pittsburgh Pirates. Detroit 020 000 010--3 Minnesota...
...Trammell. DP--Detroit 1, Minnesota 1. LOB--Detroit 4, Minnesota 3. 2B--Gaetti, Brunansky, Laudner. HR--Lemon (1), Hrbek (1), Whitaker (1). SB--Whitaker (1), Sheridan (1), Bush 2 (2). S--Brookens...
...1960s, a short enigmatic man named Berry Gordy was the man with the vision; the team of Holland-Dozier-Holland provided the songs; Detroit provided the locale and dozens of local teenagers became the Supremes, Marvellettes, Temptations, Miracles and more. Gordy controlled the sound and groomed the future stars from their clothes to their choreography. The result, of course, was Motown--and a new era in party music...