Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Almost three weeks after the disappearance of onetime Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa, the mystery appeared no closer to being solved. "We have no information on the whereabouts of Mr. Hoffa, whether he is living or dead," said Jay Bailey, assistant special agent in charge of the FBI office in Detroit. "We don't know if his disappearance was voluntary or otherwise. Every lead is a promise, and we're getting them by the hundreds. But there is nothing we can consider promising at this moment...
While teamster officials met in Boston (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS) the vigil continued at the three-acre Hoffa compound north of Detroit. Burly Teamsters patrolled the grounds; an antenna on the roof signaled the presence of FBI agents within the two-story white frame house. Hoffa's wife Josephine occasionally walked the family's German shepherd. For the first time since her husband's disappearance, she left the compound briefly in the company of her son James. Young Hoffa continued to meet a dwindling band of reporters. He added an intriguing new ingredient to the case when...
...Eighth Wonder of the World, New Orleans will stage the "grand opening" of its 97,365-capacity Louisiana Superdome, which could absorb the 66,000-seat Astrodome with room to spare. Last week Pontiac, Mich., opened its 80,400-seat, $55.7 million Metropolitan Stadium, 25 miles northwest of Detroit, with an exhibition football game between the Detroit Lions and the Kansas City Chiefs. Seattle hopes to complete the dome on the 60,000-seat, $60 million King County Stadium next year "in time for the baseball season"-even though Seattle does not as yet have a dome-town baseball team...
Died. James Jewell, 69, early radio producerdirector; of a heart attack; in Chicago. While working for WXYZ in Detroit during the 1930s, Jewell produced, wrote and directed both the early Lone Ranger series and The Green Hornet. Kee-Mo-Sah-Bee, Tonto's greeting to the masked Ranger, derived from the name of a boys' camp owned by Jewell's father-in-law. Jewell's later credits include The Black Ace and Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy, a long-running saga that exhorted teen-agers to eat Wheaties...
...doctor's absence may actually be therapeutic for the patient if he is coached to take advantage of it. According to a study of vacations made by Detroit's Dr. Alexander Grinstein, "The ego utilizes periods away from analysis to consolidate, assimilate or synthesize the insights that have been made...