Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your Aug. 11 Faubus story is extremely insulting. Violence Southward, try as you will to magnify it, is a mere sniff of the ugly physical revulsion, anarchy and race violence exploding in your own backyard (Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., New York City, Detroit...
KENNETH R. BENOIT Detroit...
AUTO SLOWDOWN is hitting Detroit just as 1959 production starts. Some 5,600 United Auto Workers left jobs in five plants last week in worst labor trouble since industry's contracts expired three months ago. Companies figure U.A.W. President Walter Reuther is flexing his muscles, expect more brief strikes...
...dictum on yachts: He who asks how much it costs cannot afford it. Country club dues and assessments are rising fast. In the past few years, dues doubled (to $350-$1,000 plus 20% federal tax) in some clubs; they went up as much as 120% in Detroit alone last year, almost 20% in Los Angeles in the past few months. The villain is the cost spiral that hits country clubs so hard that only the biggest operate in the black. The average club, according to accountants Horwath & Horwath, comptrollers general of the country club set, suffered a 7% operating...
Like Bermuda shorts, the tights (variously known as leotards, leotights and legotards) got their start last fall in Eastern women's colleges, where the girls like to be demure in a worldly sort of way. This summer, after the Manhattan fashion shows, they swept the U.S. Detroit's Winkelman Bros, department store sold out its entire stock of 1,000 leotards the first week they went on sale. Boston's Filene's has stocked them on each of its seven selling floors. On one day alone, a single Manhattan newspaper carried nine ads for the tights...