Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mile stretch of highway between Ann Arbor and Detroit, even housewives in curlers pretend they are Mario Andretti. But one morning last week drivers revving up for the dash to Detroit found all lanes blocked by a trio of cars traveling abreast at 55 m.p.h., the legal speed limit. Behind the wheels were Stephen W. Long, Elizabeth Ann Lipski and Bruce Nielson, three friends who had taken it upon themselves to enforce the law. Their cars were decorated with signs reading GAS SHORTAGE and STAY ALIVE...
...also the model for bilateral air agreements that the U.S. has with more than 60 other countries. The British have several demands, including rights to add new U.S. cities, notably Atlanta and Houston, to the ones that British Airways now serves -New York, Washington, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles and Miami. Most important, the British want to be given, by bureaucratic fiat, a bigger slice of the scheduled air traffic between the U.S. and Britain-a route that will be flown by some 1.8 million passengers paying $500 million this year...
...Detroit...
Journalism has long demanded a wide array of skills: interviewing, spelling, bluffing, sleuthing, reading documents upside down on someone else's desk. The Detroit News has added something new to the list: selling papers. For every 13-week subscription a staffer can peddle, the News announced last week, he or she will earn two points toward a catalogue full of gifts, from a Rubbermaid bird feeder (six points) to a digital watch (100 points...
...halt its steady loss of readers to the morning Free Press (daily circulation up 22% in ten years to 622,339, only 5,122 behind the News). Last month the News roused its reporters' wrath with an internal memo announcing that the "product" would henceforth stress stories about "Detroit and its horrors that are discussed at suburban cocktail parties." The subscription drive has met with similar hostility. Complained a Newspaper Guild officer: "That's just not our role. The obvious answer to the circulation problem is to put out a better newspaper and cut out the garbage like...