Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...strange land. Now the Dominican Sisters of Adrian, Mich., are appealing to a higher source. They have devised a prayer for a "government of integrity," calling upon the deity "to strengthen and inspire our representatives to pass legislation that will emancipate us from cancerous greed and conspiratorial secrecy." In Detroit, Archbishop John Cardinal Dearden issued a pastoral letter that noted, "These are difficult days for the country we love," and asked observance of the first three Fridays in November as days of voluntary prayer, penance and fasting in light of the nation's political turmoil...
...normal strength among the electorate after the McGovern debacle of 1972. The party picked up the governorship in New Jersey and took control of both houses of the state legislature. Democratic mayors were elected in New York, Minneapolis and Louisville, and black Democrats took over city hall in Detroit, Raleigh, N.C., and Dayton. Democrats swept municipal elections in Connecticut and Kentucky...
...stirring up charges or racism coming from both camps. By November, most New Yorkers seemed glad that their choice had been made over the summer, when not too many people were watching, and when many voters were away on vacation, avoiding a more intense racial confrontation like the Detroit election. Only 47 per cent of New York's eligible voters turned...
...agencies trying--B.F. Porter Jr. listed 23 different city, state, federal and private agencies concerned with one or another aspect of the Charles in the Boston Globe last month--and the Charles unquestionably looks a lot cleaner than the Cuyohoga River in Cleveland or the River Rouge in Detroit or the Houston Ship Canal or the East River in New York City. When a crew overturns, none of its members dies. Nevertheless, no one thinks of swimming in the Charles--and it's illegal for people to try--even hough most of the agencies agree that with surprisingly conceivable amounts...
...prayerfully" asking him to leave office, or that a poll of 393 Yale alumni and their wives showed that 70% favored an inquiry into impeachment. What is more ominous for Nixon is the collapse of some of his most loyal props. In a striking about-face, the pro-Nixon Detroit News urged the President to resign "to spare the nation three more years of turmoil and political vendetta." Admitting that the nation was in the midst of a "classic crise de régime," William F. Buckley's conservative National Review concluded that the President must step down...