Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...previously winless Detroit Lions edged the San Francisco Forty-niners, 17-13, in the ABC Monday Night Football game, telecast live from Detroit...
Meanwhile, in the U.S., the American Dream is close to realization. The Melting Pot has done its work, and all today join together in complaining that the Internal Revenue Service is overtaxing us. Those who might differ are ringed off into compact enclaves, like blacks squeezed into downtown Detroit or the Italians ringed off by expressways and skyscrapers in Boston's North End. Ideological differences take the form of squabbles between Democrats and Republicans in the House Ways and Means Committee. The American future is mirrored in the tree-lined streets of Bethesda and Grosse Point and Scarsdale, insulated from...
...Chicago, farm leaders argued against any move to reduce food prices in the U.S. by means of stiffening export regulations so that more farm goods would be kept at home. Business leaders at two minisummits in Pittsburgh and Detroit insisted on their right to raise prices and asked for greater depreciation allowances to increase production. Ford Motor Co. Chairman Henry Ford II proposed at least a five-year moratorium on most Government orders to install new safe ty and antipollution equipment in cars...
...first round in what some commentators are already calling "the energy war" was fired by President Gerald Ford in a Sept. 23 speech to the ninth annual World Energy Conference in Detroit. Amplifying his "straight talk" to the U.N. General Assembly the previous week (TIME, Sept. 30), Ford deplored "the pulverizing impact of energy price increases on every aspect of the world economy." He warned: "Sovereign nations cannot allow their policies to be dictated or their fate decided by artificial rigging and distortion of world commodity markets ... Exorbitant prices can only distort the world economy, run the risk of worldwide...
After the Detroit decision, why shouldn't South Boston be angry? Its grievance against the suburbs--like the South's grievance against the North--is real, despite its usefulness to the people who throw rocks at schoolbuses. But the redress of that grievance will be likelier when education is better and when black and white people unite to obtain it. The integration of Boston's schools should hasten that...