Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Garrity's announcement came in response to the appeal of Boston citizens who are pressing him to present a suburban busing order despite a Supreme Court ruling in July which turned down a similar busing program in Detroit and 53 suburbs...
...State Henry Kissinger by seeing him off on his latest trip to the Middle East (see THE WORLD). He lobbied scores of Congressmen on the eve of their campaign recess. He held his third press conference as President. He spoke at Republican campaign dinners in Burlington, Vt., Philadelphia and Detroit...
...have the usual 21/2 postelection months to organize his Administration before taking office. Thus strong criticism of Ford's style seems premature. The real test will be the substance of his decisions as his presidency unfolds. Former Presidential Press Secretary J.F. terHorst, now a columnist for the Detroit News, describes Ford as "a Boy Scout in the White House" and "a man with a nice-guy reputation." The President is also a man who, right now, is still understandably struggling to get a total feel for his office...
...asked automakers to improve average auto-gasoline mileage by 40%, to 20 miles per gal., within four years-a goal so high it caught even FEA officials by surprise. If Detroit balks, says one Administration official, "we'll seek legislation...
...excesses are acknowledged by many of the regulators themselves. In a speech in Detroit last week, Federal Trade Commission Chairman Lewis Engman, 38, a Nixon appointee, sounded almost like an echo of Consumerist Ralph Nader, whose Center for the Study of Responsive Law has just published a massive 950-page citizens' guidebook to the "bureaucratic labyrinths" of the federal regulatory system...