Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After moving across the Atlantic in 1964, Ford played with the Detroit Cougars in the North American Soccer League and coached at Bryant College in Rhode Island. He is now teaching in the Woonsocket, R.I. school system...
...Bicentennial. But some of the organization's 4,600 full-timeprofessionals soon found their quotas unattainable. Apparently fearing for their jobs, they signed up thousands of fictitious scouts, in some cases even paying the registration fees. Scout officials have already resigned or been fired in Chicago, Detroit and Tulsa, Okla., and the investigation is continuing. Says Detroit Area Council Director Joseph Wyckoff: "When you try to teach youngsters integrity and trustworthiness, it's inconceivable to have professionals who don't follow scouting rules...
...Katharine Cornell, 81, empress of the American theater; of pneumonia; in Vineyard Haven, Mass. "Kit" Cornell grew up in Buffalo, where her father gave up a medical practice to manage a playhouse. She joined the Washington Square Players in New York in 1917, did stock parts in Buffalo and Detroit, and caught the notice of Guthrie McClintic, a young director. They married in 1921, the year Cornell first played on Broadway, starting one of the theater's most auspicious connubial collaborations. During the 40 years of their marriage, McClintic directed Cornell in almost all of her roles...
Dora Smith, the first black forewoman at Detroit's Budd Co., a supplier of automotive parts, acknowledges her unabashed, triumphant materialism. When she bought her 1974 Ford Gran Torino, she says, "I used to go out at night just to make sure it was still there. Then when I'd get up the next day, I'd say 'Good morning, car.'" D. Parke Gibson, a New York City marketing analyst who advises corporations on how to tap the $46 billion-a-year black market, says that buying sprees by blacks may be something...
...fortunate brethren. Look at white people who live in the rich suburb of Barrington Hills. They don't go down to Cicero and mingle with the blue-collar workers." The Rev. Ralph Abernathy, president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, once jokingly reprimanded a black doctor from Detroit for driving a Rolls-Royce. Responded the doctor: "Reverend, I said I would help the poor. I didn't say I was going to be poor...