Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...steadily since the late Charles L. Knight, a former editor of the Woman's Home Companion, bought the Akron Beacon Journal in 1906. Under Knight's sons, John S., 79, and James L., 64, the chain has grown to 16 metropolitan dailies, including the Miami Herald, the Detroit Free Press and the Philadelphia Inquirer...
Died. Stephen John Roth, 66, federal district court judge who in a 1971 decision (now being reviewed by the Supreme Court) ruled that Detroit public schools were racially segregated as a result of state and local policies and ordered them to integrate, through the use of busing, with schools in 52 suburban districts; of a heart attack; in Flint, Mich...
...German-language parish bulletin a century ago and has in recent decades become the pugnacious defender of orthodoxy. Matt admits that his paper is "roughhewn" and quips that intellectuals order it in a "plain brown envelope." In a series of articles criticizing reforms in the Archdiocese of Detroit, a Wanderer writer hit its progressive archbishop, John Cardinal Dearden, particularly hard, even suggested that he might be "a major heretic, one of the worst the Catholic Church has ever suffered from." Another piece compared today's liberal religion teachers to "chimpanzees," charging that they "cannot be relied on to respect...
...civil libertarians, smut peddlers and bluestockings alike, last year's tough anti-obscenity rulings have had relatively little effect. The first few months after the Miller decision did see a rash of hasslings, raids, busts and prosecutions in Los Angeles, Tulsa, New Orleans, Tampa, Montgomery, New York, Bangor, Detroit, Chicago, Kankakee and elsewhere. Books were quietly shelved in many libraries and even burned (32 copies of Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five) in Drake, N. Dak. But, by and large, even smutty books and magazines still sold; the X-rated movies still showed. Says Barney Rossett, head of erotically...
...Howard K. Smith had been the preferred network commentator in the White House, but it was Smith, rather than CBS's Eric Sevareid or NBC'S David Brinkley, who called for Nixon's removal last fall. The Detroit News is a conservative bastion, and its editor Martin Hayden had been on friendly personal terms with Nixon for 25 years; last November the News said Nixon could best serve the nation by resigning. Other papers and editors previously more or less partial to the President?including the Denver Post, Chicago Tribune, Kansas City Times, Omaha World-Herald and William Randolph Hearst...