Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ford's probity, the community that helped shape him stands as a kind of character witness. Just as Plains, Ga. (pop. 683), is typical of the Deep South, small-town style, Grand Rapids, Mich. (pop. 195,000), epitomizes many of the enduring qualities that typify the Midwest. TIME Detroit Bureau Chief Edwin Reingold visited Grand Rapids, while White House Correspondent Strobe Talbott talked with Ford's friends from his home town on the White House staff. Their report...
Another Carter staff member said en route to Detroit yesterday morning that the staff had considered adjusting the candidate's schedule today to allow a Carter appearance at Riverfront Stadium, but that the idea had been rejected...
...popular variety shows of wartime London." But his wandering in such milieus provided him with an even broader spectrum of sordid images: a savvy pimp initiated him into Soho's brothels; he was struck by the loneliness and humiliation of urban life in New York; the inhumanity of Detroit's factories, which he saw as a model for Europe, alarmed him. These bleak experiences reinforced his conviction that the Western world was collapsing and goaded him to cast himself as a doomsayer, as "Cassandra-Celine," who in 1939 gleefully harangued his friends with prophecies of war: "Scrape out your entrails...
...Chicago were governed without patronage. Hill said, power would not be centralized, and Chicago would deteriorate to the economic or social chaos of a New York City or Detroit. Chicagoans must know the machine is tuned-up by corruption, but they give Daley landslide approval--because his machine keeps their city running smoothly...
...shut down, the teachers union avoided any firing of its members when it accepted a new contract at last year's salary level. Still, unless the deficit is reduced, the school district may not be able to borrow more money and may have to close at midterm. Detroit, with a $6 million shortfall, has closed ten elementary schools, dropped some high school varsity sports and fired 600 substitute teachers. In Boston, Mayor Kevin White has ordered $15 million slashed from this year's school budget to help ease the pain of a $56 increase in the city...