Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Detroit last week, one 12-year-old boy was fatally stabbed by another 12-year-old in an argument after a basketball game. A 17-year-old, stabbed a few days earlier in similar circumstances, is still recuperating. Police laid out exhibits of lethal weapons, many of them homemade, carried by adolescents, and the cry was promptly raised: "Let's get tough with juvenile delinquents...
Purged by Fire. In Detroit, charged with forging a $27 check, Dolores Martin pleaded innocent, explained to the judge: "I knew I did something wrong, but I'm not guilty, Your Honor. I burned the money...
Death is no stranger to the Rev. Julius Busse, onetime superior of Detroit's Monastery of St. Paul of the Cross. As chaplain with the 7th Division, through five invasions in the South Pacific during World War II, Kansas-born Father Busse was wounded once and several times had bullets rip his clothes. One day he gave the last rites to 60 Roman Catholic soldiers. When the war was over, Major Busse had a Silver Star and a Bronze Star for gallantry...
...powerful engine (up to 230 h.p. from 210), cowl-type air vents instead of standard air intakes (which often sucked in the exhaust from cars ahead). As on most G.M. cars, prices are little changed, except for Cadillac's Eldorado convertible, cut $2,000, to $5,700 f.o.b. Detroit...
Since then, Harlow Curtice has never slowed his pace. Up at 6 a.m. every morning, in his suite in the G.M. building in Detroit, he spends upwards of 14 hours a workday on the job, usually sees his family in Flint, his hometown, only on weekends. Though head of the world's biggest manufacturing corporation (1953 sales: an estimated $11 billion), he is not above taking a complaint about service personally over the phone from a G.M. car owner, and doing something about it. Design is his hobby, and the new cars incorporate some of the features...