Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...applicable to the period in which I live." At 19, after a brief try at art school in Calgary, Joan decided to become a professional musician. Too poor to join the musicians' union, she floated around Toronto until one night she met Chuck Mitchell, a cabaret performer from Detroit who was appearing at the Penny Farthing. She was a prairie-fresh girl who sang a strong yet ethereal soprano and stitched up her own pantsuits. He was a music professional seven years her senior. One month later they married...
Among other things, he would have the Government use revenues from an in creased gas tax to extend unemployment compensation from 39 weeks to a full year. As he told the Detroit News in announcing his plan: "We have to think about the social consequences if things continue in the old way. You can't expect people to sell apples on the street corners as they did in the 1930s." Another reason for a high gasoline tax, though one that Ford did not mention, is that it would discourage consumption and so reduce U.S. dependence on exorbitantly priced imported...
Seldom does a major daily newspaper execute as many flip-flops on important stories as the Detroit Free Press did in recent weeks. The first came over an article by Remer Tyson, 40, the paper's political correspondent, and Reporter Dave Anderson, 32, five days before the November elections. Their story accused State Representative James Damman, the Republican candidate for Lieutenant Governor, of conflicts of interest arising from his land deals while a member of the city commission and zoning board of Troy, a Detroit suburb...
...third editorial, the Free Press flip-flopped in a different sense. Folksy columnist Judd Arnett revealed on the last page that Henry Ford had told him he favored a gasoline tax-big news in a town suffering the worst slump in car sales since 1958. The afternoon competition, the Detroit News, immediately saw the dynamite in the story, got a statement from Ford, and ran it on Page One, scooping the Free Press. Next day the Free Press tried lamely to recoup with predictable reactions from economists...
Result: reporters at the Free Press are openly annoyed with the editors, and the readers are confused. For a proud daily that won a Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of the Detroit riots in 1967, and has recently gained in its circulation battle with the News, the whole affair seems out of character. But late last week Free Press editors had another chance. City Editor Larry Jolidan was in Executive Editor Kurt Luedtke's office arranging a meeting with some local milk companies that were angry about a Free Press story on how middlemen are profiting from rising milk...