Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first-quarter statistics showed an annual increase of 7.5% in the gross national product. Almost as heartening, the annual inflation rate declined to 3.7%, and although it is expected to creep up to perhaps 6%, it is still a far cry from the 9.7% rate reached in 1974. Detroit was forecasting a 10.5 million car year, the second best ever. Profits were up, retail sales were high, and even the long depressed housing industry was on the rise again. Unemployment remained at an unacceptable 7.5%, but this was a promising drop from the 8.9% high of last...
Carter was publicly embraced by Martin Luther King Sr., who declared: "I have a forgiving heart, so, Governor, I'm with you all the way." Detroit Mayor Coleman Young said that Carter's apology was "satisfactory" and that the furor over his remarks was "a phony issue." Echoed Paul Parks, Massachusetts' secretary of educational affairs and a black civil rights veteran: "The majority of black people across the country are staying with Carter. Some of them are shaky, but they're willing to forgive him. He's got a kind of thing about him that...
Died. Myra K. Wolfgang, 61, outspoken union leader who two years ago helped organize the 3,200-member nationwide Coalition of Labor Union Women; of cancer; in Detroit. As vice president of the 500,000-member Hotel and Restaurant Employees and Bartenders International, she testified against the Equal Rights Amendment. "I am afraid of equality of mistreatment," she told a Senate subcommittee...
...plan identifies ten cities as targets for intensified recruiting efforts. Jewett has said some of the areas--New York City, Baltimore, Atlanta and Philadelphia among them--did especially well this year, while others--Chicago, New Orleans and Detroit in particular...
Somewhere along the strip of cheap bars, industrial warehouses and porno bookstores which line Detroit Avenue, one storefront advertises CELEBREZZE FOR CONGRESS. Anthony J. Celebrezze Jr., a state senator since 1974, is one jump ahead of the pack at this premature measuring point according to a recent private poll. And--although Detroit Avenue is a far cry from Nini's Corner, the Celebrezze headquarters is heavily staffed by Harvard people. Ira Forman '74, campaign manager, came back to Harvard in December to recruit, and with the aid of Office of Career Services and Off-Campus Learning (OCS-OCL) staffers...