Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Michigan voters accepted that easily supportable claim. Riegle, whose tape-recorded pillow talk with an unpaid former woman staffer highlighted the campaign (TIME, Nov. 1), will succeed the retiring Philip Hart when the Senate convenes next January. For a time, the incident that surfaced in the anti-Riegle Detroit News seemed to tip the election in the direction of Republican Congressman Marvin Esch...
...matter was complicated, since the National Council cannot tell member churches who their delegates should be. Moreover, council leaders rightly feel Trifa should be presumed innocent until proven guilty. The U.S. Attorney in Detroit charged last year that in a 1957 naturalization hearing, Trifa falsely denied participating in Rumania's Nazi-lining "Iron Guard." That suit, still pending, ultimately could cost Trifa his citizenship...
...same as gasoline, diesel engines get up to double the mileage. From 1974 to 1975, sales of diesel cars (mostly Peugeots and West German-made Mercedes) almost doubled in the U.S., rising to nearly 25,000 vehicles. Although sales this year are down, partly because of lower imports, Detroit has taken note of the new diesel dazzle. General Motors engineers are developing a diesel Oldsmobile that is scheduled to appear...
...never thought that I would live long enough to see this," declared Msgr. John Egan, 60, grand old man of Catholic social action. What the balding monsignor saw as he looked out upon the throng in Detroit's Cobo Hall was an unprecedented gathering of representatives of the U.S. Roman Catholic hierarchy and the church's grass roots: 110 bishops meeting openly in discussion with 1,230 priests, nuns and laity. Said Egan: "The voice of the church is about to be heard through these delegates...
MARRIED PRIESTS. Pope Paul has repeatedly insisted on the traditional requirement of celibacy for priests in the Western church, and the 1971 international Synod of Bishops strongly endorsed his position. But the Detroit conference boldly proposed that the church allow married men to be ordained and consider approving marriage for men already in the priesthood...