Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time, it looked like the beginning of the 1967 riots all over again. The trouble started outside Bob Bolton's Bar and Grill in the Livernois-Fenkell section of Detroit. The bar's white owner, Andrew Chinarian, 39, claimed that he had caught Obie Wynn, 18, and two other black youths tampering with his car in the parking lot. As the trio tried to escape, said Chinarian, he fired at Wynn with a .25-cal. pistol and hit him in the back of the head. When word spread through the black community that Wynn was dead...
...Detroit's black Mayor Coleman Young raced to the scene and spent the whole night trying to calm the crowds. So did a number of other officials and clergymen. Young also ordered in some 600 police, armed with riot helmets, nightsticks and tear gas, but under strict orders that "the use of fatal force [is] prohibited unless ... life is endangered." Not a shot was fired, and crowds dispersed at dawn...
...that, although Ford had helped other alcoholic employees in the U.S. get treatment, he was never even told that such help was available. After a long struggle, Brennan kicked the drinking habit-so successfully that he is now business manager of an alcoholic-treatment center in Lake Orion, near Detroit...
After it closes in Washington Sept. 9, the show will travel to New York's Knoedler gallery, which, as it happens, is partly owned by Hammer, then to Detroit, Los Angeles and Houston. If it is not comprehensive, it is a superb sampling-a cabinet des arts that Catherine herself might have delighted...
Butter Cutter. Meanwhile, they gross between $30,000 and $50,000 a concert, have an eight-week contract with the Las Vegas Hilton and spend lucrative summer weeks playing theaters and supper clubs. Last fall Gladys, now 31, married her second husband, Barry Hankerson, an executive assistant to Detroit Mayor Coleman Young. He calls her by her middle name, Maria-Gladys, after all, is a show business celebrity. In the industry there is some gossip that success has already created a wedge in the Pips' solidarity. "When vocal groups are hungry, you can't split 'em with...