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Those tactics will be tested by the conditions in Detroit, the site of nationals, where the Crimson expects conditions different from the normal sailing conditions on the Charles...
...Detroit outfit known as Electric Six are too stupid even for the stupid garage-rock revival, which is probably why their debut album, Fire, is so much fun. The first single, Danger! High Voltage, went to No. 2 in England earlier this year thanks to a Gloria Gaynoresque bass line, electric-current sound effects and lyrics like "Fire in the disco! Fire in the Taco Bell!" The track has a ferocious vocal cameo from a purported auto mechanic named John S. O'Leary, who everyone insists is not Jack White of the White Stripes. The same Jack White who insists...
...Lansing, Mich., which opened last year. Be more flexible about work rules, and let us outsource more, GM said, or we'll set up shop in Mexico or Canada (where the Canadian Auto Workers split from its American parent in 1985). The plant is now a model of Detroit lean and mean. Its vehicles rate second, to Lexus, in initial quality. Suppliers deliver components every four hours (vs. every two weeks at some GM plants), and management lets workers freeze the lines if they notice a component or assembly flaw...
...Detroit's toughest problems is that as its vehicles and plants improve, so do those of its foreign-based competitors. Today's global auto industry is a race in which it's difficult not only to win but also to survive--a contest that Chrysler, in a sense, lost when it gave up its independence. That prospect stalks other U.S. automakers--and keeps them running hard. --With reporting by Joseph R. Sczcesny/Detroit
...DIED. DAVE DEBUSSCHERE, 62, one of the early titans of the National Basketball Association, the youngest coach in its history and last commissioner of the defunct American Basketball Association; in New York City. DeBusschere, who was more than two meters tall, started his career with the Detroit Pistons in 1962 and was made player-coach for the team two years later, at the age of 24. In 1968, DeBusschere was traded to the New York Knicks, with whom he won the NBA championships in 1970 and 1973. As the Knicks' executive vice president, DeBusschere drafted the legendary Patrick Ewing...