Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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PLUMBERS. Headed by William H. Merrill, who at 50 is the staff elder, this task force is looking into the operation of the White House's undercover investigators. A resident of Detroit, Merrill graduated from Yale Law School in 1950, then practiced corporate law in Michigan before becoming Chief Assistant U.S. Attorney in Detroit in 1961 during the Kennedy Administration...
...sons of slaves! In the funeral Cadillac, all men are equal! What satisfaction for the poor to function in this process as a sacred ministry of leveller priests on the assembly line. Ferrying the executives across the Styx which we call be many names--Hudson, East, Cuyahoga, Detroit, Los Angeles, or Bay; ferrying souls from West Point or the East side or poshest Cleveland or plushest Bloomfield Hills, or from the splendors of Westwood or Nob Bill, ferried in radial punctureproof silence to those lushest immortal gardens of bones which match each heavenly city of America. Whatever the name they...
WILLIAM SUDYK Detroit...
Pistol shots crackled one afternoon last week in Dearborn, the Detroit suburb that is home to the Ford Motor Co.'s sprawling Rouge plant and to the United Auto Workers' 34,000-man Local 600. William Harrell, a skilled millwright, was shot in the backside by a man whom bystanders identified as an officer of Harrell's own local. The two men had been on opposing sides of a bitter internal battle over the U.A.W.'s newly negotiated contract with Ford. On one side are the union's skilled tradesmen-the tool-and diemakers, electricians...
...DETROIT: The obvious issue was scarcely mentioned in the campaign. Though a black man and a white man were competing for the office, they behaved as if race did not matter. It did, of course. The growing black population (about 50% of the electorate) made it inevitable that sooner or later a black mayor would be elected. It turned out to be sooner. Coleman A. Young, 55, a smooth-talking state senator, defeated John Nichols, 54, a former police commissioner by 232,000 votes...