Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...consideration for various reasons: Vernon Jordan, National Urban League executive director, who said he was too "committed to the black people and the Urban League" to consider a job; Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley, who said he was "flattered" but was determined to run for reelection; and Detroit Mayor Coleman Young, who said he thought he could be more useful trying to solve Detroit's problems than in taking the HUD position...
Last week, for example, the Government reported that both personal income and industrial production rose more than a percentage point in November. In Seattle, Boeing announced that it would hire up to 4,500 workers because of an upturn in aircraft orders. In Detroit, Ford Motor Co., recovering from a month-long strike, said that it would raise capital spending to $2 billion next year, an increase...
...landmark meeting in Detroit in October, delegates from U.S. dioceses boldly asked their bishops to renounce the 1884 decree and welcome back the remarried. That appears unlikely, but Dozier's experiment-he scheduled a second ceremony this week in Jackson. Tenn.-may inspire a series of reconciliation days in other parts of the nation...
...among the dullest ever written by a major artist. ("Our Peru trip wasn't too great . . . Cuzco was good but really just another Spanish city with Indians.") No matter. Since 1938, when he bought his first camera-he was then an accounting clerk with the Chrysler Corp. in Detroit-Callahan's entire work has been directed with obsessive, addicted purity to one chief question: What is the exact nature of a still photograph, and what marks it off from any other kind of visual image...
...anti-American crisis in the Canal Zone, thus beginning his remarkable set of peacemaking missions for Johnson. In 1965 Vance's skills as a negotiator helped settle a civil war in Santo Domingo, and in 1967 he lent a calming hand to the Army's occupation of Detroit, where violent race riots had killed 43 people...