Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that their fragile prosperity might blow away with ill economic winds. When times are bad, blacks are often the first to lose their jobs -though there have been no noticeable layoffs of black skilled workers during the current recession. Says a $35,000-a-year urban planning executive in Detroit: "We constantly live with the paranoia that we'll get sick or fired. I'm constantly aware of the fact that if I were out of work for six months, I'd be on the skids...
...other occupation have blacks made such strides as in politics. The number of black mayors has increased in the past year from 82 to 108, including Los Angeles' Thomas Bradley, Atlanta's Maynard Jackson and Detroit's Coleman Young. In Mississippi, where any Negro who had the temerity to run for office a decade ago might have been a candidate for a lynching, there are some 200 black elected officials...
Charged with taking $850 in rent deposits for houses he did not own, Donald Rowell, 31, decided that he could do a better job with his defense than could Alice Rucker, his court-appointed attorney. So the Detroit defendant took over his case and put an unusual witness on the stand, none other than Lawyer Rucker. Now, asked self-appointed Attorney Rowell in his best courtroom manner, "have I ever lied...
Elson, a sometime dance critic and longtime oenophile, began at TIME as a summer-vacation copy boy while an undergraduate at Notre Dame. He went on to get an M.A. in English from Columbia, and after a stint in Japan with the Air Force joined our Detroit bureau in 1957. He later transferred to New York, where he wrote and edited Religion as well as other sections, and he moved to World three years ago. "What's going on now is as challenging and complex a variety of situations as I've had to deal with...
...wanted neither the long arm of the law nor Detroit to harness me into my seat belt [April 29]. But it was not easy to regain control of my car. First, I had to get rid of the offensive red light that glared "Fasten Seat Belt." I thought this would still the buzzer, but no; luckily, my adrenaline gave me the power to rip out the wiring system. I also managed to dismantle the buzzer that told me the key was in the ignition while the door was open. My wife and I still use our seat belts...