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Word: detroits (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...enabling it to travel almost twice as far between recharges at speeds of up to 70 m.p.h. Complete recharging takes about 90 minutes (special equipment and electric lines are necessary) and costs approximately 1? per mile. Most important, the Thunderbolt uses the body and other parts of standard-production Detroit automobiles, mounted on top of a special heavy-duty chassis. Main drawback: the price is a Cadillac-like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Electric Rebirth | 4/15/1974 | See Source »

...hunting and fishing with other manly pursuits, e.g., rape, torture, kidnap and/or murder. Optional extras are sexual deviation, castration and severe mutilation, variously featured in such creations as James Dickey's Deliverance and David Osborn's more recent novel Open Season, a dreadful account of three top Detroit executives who each year put a man and a woman to death for sport. (Says the jacket blurb, a searing portrait "of America in the seventies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Something for the Boys | 4/15/1974 | See Source »

Embree added to his laurels this season by capturing seventh place in the NCAA Championships held in Detroit on March...

Author: By Gilbert A. Kerr, | Title: Embree Jumps to New Record; Clears 7ft. in Televised Meet | 4/11/1974 | See Source »

Stevie was the third of six children in a not particularly musical family. He grew up in Detroit in what he likes to call "upper-lower-class circumstances." When he was ten, Stevie was picked up by Motown after a routine audition and subsequently enrolled at the Michigan School for the Blind, where classes were fitted into his career schedule. It would have been a mad life for any child. Stevie spent years on tour with the Motown Revue. Other performers would joke about not wanting to sleep in the hotel room next to his because he would keep them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Black, Blind and on Top of Pop | 4/8/1974 | See Source »

Henry Fonda's Darrow, which last week began a limited run on Broadway before going to Boston, Detroit, Denver and Los Angeles, has something of both the fascination and the mustiness of the history in it. It is a one-man show, a long reminiscence over Darrow's career. Fonda ranges across Darrow's life-his scant formal learning (one year of law school), his increasing involvement in dangerously unpopular cases, like that of the Wobbly Big Bill Haywood, and, of course, the Scopes trial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Americana | 4/8/1974 | See Source »

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