Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lyndon Johnson's Great Society. This was an act of realism that was needed in the U.S. Nixon probably expressed an overwhelming majority feeling in his firm opposition to busing: eventually his Supreme Court, presided over by Warren Burger, dealt busing a severe blow by ruling Detroit's cross-district busing unconstitutional...
Upon graduation from Harvard, he was drafted by the Detroit Lions in the sixth round of the National Football League college draft...
...behind in the shuffle of progress. There is, for example, his father, a diehard independent trucker; Bob Suffridge, the former all-American halfback for Tennessee who is now an alcoholic in Knoxville; Jabe Thomas, one of the only major-circuit stock car racers who does not having backing from Detroit; and a series of once-promising baseball players who never made it. Failures and dying breeds are Hemphill's stock-in-trade, but it never seems as if he's writing the same piece over and over with different characters because his eye for detail and dialogue and nuance remain...
...largest outside the U.S., has combined the top 50 for the first time in its August issue, published this week. Of the world's largest industrials, 24 are based in the U.S. Ten of the top twelve are American. Indeed, three of the top five are Detroit's General Motors, Ford and Chrysler. Half of the top dozen have headquarters in New York City or its suburbs...
Died. Don McCafferty, 53, even-tempered head coach of the National Football League's Detroit Lions; of an apparent heart attack; in Pontiac, Mich. McCafferty joined the Baltimore Colts as an assistant offensive coach in 1959, succeeded tough-talking Don Shula as head coach in 1970 and guided the team to a Super Bowl victory in his first season. Less than two years later, he was dismissed by Colts General Manager Joe Thomas-ostensibly for refusing to bench Aging Star Quarterback Johnny Unitas (TIME, Aug. 5)-and signed on with the Lions in January...