Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Muriel Andrew Detroit...
...Detroit, pot-smoking Jesse Coulter, 42, was so overcome by the combination of grass and the televised version of Roots that he picked up a sawed-off shotgun and ordered Wife Rita to drive with him 260 miles to Cincinnati. There the two took eight hostages in a home for unwed mothers and held them for twelve hours, demanding to see the son they had given up at the same home 20 years earlier. Coulter finally surrendered after a young detective, pretending to be his long-lost son, persuaded him to end the siege...
Real Victims. Financially, the Credit Society has its outcasts and victims. For all the vigor with which lenders push credit, some people find they cannot get any. Janet Brooks, 30, paid cash for all her major purchases for her first nine years after graduating from Wayne State University in Detroit because she feared she lacked the self-discipline to handle credit. Now, as co-owner of a recently founded catering business, she needs credit; the business cannot borrow unless Miss Brooks and her partner, another single woman, prove their personal creditworthiness. Says Janet: "I've tried Master Charge, Carte...
...best of times. The Detroit Pistons, lackluster for so long, were only 3½ games behind Denver in the National Basketball Association's Midwest Division, comfortably coasting toward a play-off berth and their first winning season in three years. Last week they had won 33 games and lost 24 and with a third of the schedule remaining were just three games short of last season's victory total. It was also the worst of times. Pistons players were at Coach Herb Brown's throat, and at one point a player actually attacked him. Locker-room arguments...
...Detroit's troubles center on Brown, who took over in the middle of last season from Ray Scott, a well-liked coach whose record had slipped at the end of his 3½-year tenure with the Pistons. Brown's personality clashes with some of the players are compounded by an embarrassment of riches. After obtaining four high-priced players during the off-season to strengthen the lineup, the Pistons have more talent than a 48-minute game can contain. On the twelve-man Detroit roster are eight players accustomed to starting and playing 35 to 40 minutes...