Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kathryn Ligosky of Oakland, Calif., have two youngsters, Jason, 6, and Joslyn, 5, and do not plan to have any more; Tim, 31, has had a vasectomy. They feel that more children would severely limit the freedom they have already used to give up their jobs in the Detroit area and move to California to pursue artistic careers. James and DeAnn Burrows of Cambridge, Mass., have a nine-month-old daughter, Monica, and are not sure they will have any more. The reason: both enjoy their jobs and such expensive pastimes as skiing; and, as they put it, "It takes...
Some 126,000 Michigan students stayed home because of strikes in 16 school systems; still, that scarcely compared with last year, when walkouts closed down 34 Michigan school systems, extending summer vacations for 650,000 students in Detroit alone...
...Detroit for a long time considered the Stirling engine too bulky and expensive for passenger cars. Ford's interest was revived by the work of the giant Dutch electronics firm, N.V. Philips, which has tested Stirling prototypes in boats, large pumps (to help dry out Holland during 1952's devastating floods) and even buses. In 1972, impressed by the Dutch results, Ford signed an agreement with Philips for joint development of a Stirling engine for passenger cars...
...threshold: from 1.2% to 1.4%. The New York metropolitan area scored an average of 1.2% for 15 stations, mostly suburban (but Brooklyn rated 2.1% and a Manhattan blood center 2%). Three areas were on the 1.5% mark: Anchorage, San Francisco and Seattle. Five were over: Chicago 1.7%, Denver 2%, Detroit 1.6%, Los Angeles 1.8% and New Orleans...
Classic restaurants are blooming around such nostalgic themes as old automobiles-for instance, Doug's Body Shop in Detroit, where diners can consume their filet mignon in a 1951 Packard-a building in Buffalo reconstructed from Mark Twain's old home, and an exquisite old Claremont, Calif., high school. There is also a streetcar manufacturing plant in San Francisco that serves only spaghetti dishes; and a reconstructed Colorado-style mining camp called The Chicago Claim Company, where luncheon menus are printed on land-claim certificates, and the decor features outsize mining pans. The place is, literally, a gold...