Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nearly all male sportswriters have grown up breathing sports rules and statistics; many of the women newcomers lack that heritage of trivia. Cyndi Meagher, 28, who last year was transferred from the Detroit News "Accent on Living" page to the sports department, has made a few embarrassing mistakes, like confusing a stolen base with a runner's advancing on a throwing error. One irate fan mailed her a jock strap...
...Catholic welfare agency sent the Kocos to New York, and another Slovak offered him a job in Detroit, sifting coal. "We arrived here without a winter coat," says Agnes. "We had nothing. Nothing." After several months of sifting coal, Koco got a job as a machinist, making gears at Massey-Ferguson. Then came a layoff. Koco turned to making boxes. He was a press operator. He worked part time as a school janitor (and studied English). He went back to Massey-Ferguson, was laid off three weeks ago. Now Agnes has found a job there, operating a grinding and shaving...
...struggle to prevent neighborhoods from declining into sleazy centers of sex-oriented bookstores and porno movie theaters. According to a 5-to-4 majority, zoning that affects only the locale for disseminating such marginal forms of free speech does not offend the First Amendment. Thus the court upheld a Detroit regulation requiring that at least 1,000 ft. separate such adult establishments. Under the ruling, city zoning authorities would be also free to concentrate smut outlets in a relatively small area, if they chose...
There is, in Kansas City, a precedent of sorts for Detroit's effort. Some 20 years ago, Joyce Hall, founder and chairman of Hallmark Cards Inc., decided to invest in what he called "the revitalization of the inner core" of his city. What he referred to was the 85 acres of used-car lots, warehouses and other derelict buildings that flanked his company's headquarters. Slowly, he bought the land-the money came from Hallmark, which produces 9.5 million greeting cards a day-and in 1967 he and his son Donald hired Architect Edward Larrabee Barnes to replan...
Dolores J. Katz, medical reporter for the Detroit Free Press; Alfred S. Larkin Jr., assistant metropolitan editor for The Boston Globe; John E. Painter Jr., staff writer for The Oregonian, Portland, Ore.; Barbara A. Reynolds, urban affairs writer for the Chicago Tribune; and Paul Solman, associate editor and reporter for The Real Paper have also been chosen...