Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...list of areas where applications of from blacks have decreased includes Washington D.C., Baltimore, Md.: New York: Detroit: Chicago: New Jersey: Delaware: and Indiana, according to the Harvard admissions office...
...test (he was asked to recite the alphabet), he was handcuffed and taken to Santa Barbara Hospital for a blood test, then to the county jail, where he was booked for drunken driving. After four hours in a holding cell, he posted his own $375 bail and returned to Detroit. So did DuRoss, a Grosse Pointe mother of two whose musician husband was killed in an auto accident 16 years ago. DuRoss has been seen in public a few times with the same former Italian consul who occasionally squired Cristina around when Henry was out of town. Ford...
...Detroit's Cobo Hall was jumping. In one sector of the huge entertainment complex pro tennis players were trading shots with muscular precision. A second area was awhirl with the lithe acrobatics of a track meet. On the Arena's basketball court the hometown Pistons were preparing to play the Washington Bullets. In that three-ring atmosphere, the management appropriately promised that costumed "clowns will perform throughout the game." The unintended reference ultimately proved embarrassing to the Pistons. Treating them like part of the sideshow, the Bullets won by 25 points and reinforced the claim that under...
More cities may soon feel the splat of the pie killers. For $50, Weiner is offering to any taker a "franchise kit" explaining the modus operandi. In Los Angeles, Pie Face International's Don Murdock is processing applications from potential hit men in Detroit, Chicago and New York, and has already taken on two operatives to service the capital area. "In Washington," he says, "the politicians are so removed from the people it takes a pie in the face to get them back to reality...
Vital Black. The movement began in 1930 when W.D. Fard, an itinerant silk peddler, founded a novel version of Islam that attracted thousands of poor Detroit blacks. After Fard disappeared mysteriously in 1934, leadership passed to Muhammad, who had been born Elijah Poole, the son of a Georgia sharecropper-preacher. When dispute erupted over the succession, Muhammad moved his base to Chicago and gradually built the Nation of Islam into a vital black separatist faith...