Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...future. At 30, he was special-projects editor of an afternoon tabloid, the Philadelphia Daily News. He had a $1,050-a-month apartment in a large building on Philadelphia's fashionable Rittenhouse Square and an art collection worth about $100,000. As a respected reporter for the Detroit Free Press, he had won an American Bar Association award. Most important, he was the millionaire grandson and a presumed heir of John S. Knight, 81, founder of the Knight-Rider Newspapers Inc., the chain that includes some 35 daily papers, such as the Detroit Free Press, the Miami Herald...
...news of the dead Knight's homosexuality was fully reported in the family papers. Later a sallow, sometime student, William Sage, 20, who is married, told Philadelphia police that he had carried on a five-year liaison with Knight in Detroit. Sage led police to a chest in Knight's apartment containing tape recordings of homosexual encounters, pictures of naked boys and Knight's diary-which ironically recorded the fact that as a result of analysis, Knight was beginning to like women...
...desired water temperature and soap, pushes a button and is then soaked, washed with suds produced by ultrasonic waves, rinsed, massaged with rubber balls and finally dried with heat lamps. A big step toward civilized johnmanship is the "AD 2000 Comfort Control Center," a prototype built by Olsonite of Detroit. Mounted on a conventional toilet, it provides a tilting, vibrating back, reading light, ashtray, radio, TV, tuner and bidet attachment. To bring the bathroom back into the family-and vice versa-a West German firm has designed a Wohnbad, or living bath, to be shared by all. It boasts chairs...
Rosa Parks returned last weekend to Montgomery from Detroit, where she now lives, to take part in a 20th anniversary celebration. The buses were once again not running - for a different reason. The black bus drivers - not al lowed behind the wheel 20 years ago - had joined in a strike for higher wages...
...facility or a hotel with 200 rooms or more. Even then, however, such mutations as rap parlors and sensitivity-training centers would not be affected. San Francisco, which has tried numerous regulations, is considering a stronger zoning law but has decided to await a U.S. Supreme Court decision on Detroit's authority to control porn shops and theaters through zoning...