Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...right to surfer is one of the joys of a free economy," genially blooped White House Aide Howard Pyle, former governor of Arizona and ex-public relations man, last week during the course of a rambling press conference in his Detroit hotel room. United Auto Workers' President Walter Reuther, all ears when it comes to hearing opportunity, promptly wired the White House: "To workers who are desperately trying to find ways and means to feed and clothe their families, this kind of callous facetiousness is, to say the least, in gross poor taste." Back in Washington, insisting...
...three drugstores), Lysol and isopropyl alcohol. After consulting the Public Health Service, Capital ordered the same crew to fly the plane back to Washington, promptly pressed it into service again with another crew. It hopped to Norfolk, Va., then made a milk-run flight through Washington, Cleveland and Detroit to Flint, Mich., taking 124 passengers between these stops...
...repeat film first shown a year ago; Producer Max Liebman tossed off a lackadaisical show starring Maurice Chevalier, Polly Bergen and Dancer Chita Rivera; Wide, Wide World contributed a go-minute thinly disguised commercial for General Motors with a visit to the automakers' new Technical Center in Detroit...
...Virginia-bred Negro. The Los Angeles Mirror-News told its story of a heavy Negro influx (1,700 a month) and the attendant problems-and then added a Negro reporter to its staff. The Associated Press joined the parade by sending its 1,750 members an 1,800-word, Detroit-datelined feature, "The Negro in the North." Last week, under a headline, As OTHERS SEE Us, the Chicago Sun-Times began reprinting a Manchester Guardian series by Correspondent Alistair Cooke on U.S. racial problems, reporting on "Northern complacency" about discriminatory practices in states such as Illinois, Indiana and Ohio...
...Richard A. Kane, 22, a senior graduating this June from M.I.T., has set up an annual scholarship to be paid for from his own earnings. Next fall Kane starts work as a physics instructor at Detroit's Wayne University, will also be employed this summer at the General Motors Technical Center. His total salary-$8,000-is more than Kane thinks he will need, so he is assigning $1,200 yearly to his scholarship fund...