Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After turning down offers from the Detroit Lions and the Green Bay Packers, he worked his way through Yale Law School as an assistant varsity-football coach and freshman boxing coach. Among his football players were Senators Robert Taft Jr. of Ohio and William Proxmire of Wisconsin. With a friend, Ford set up a law practice in Grand Rapids in 1941, helped elect a reform slate of Republican candidates for local office, and then entered the Navy. When the war ended, Ford returned home to his law practice...
...result, manufacturing secrets rarely keep for long in Detroit. A few years ago, for example, Ford men concluded that a competitor was building a superior master brake cylinder. They designed a similar one, but modified it to use two bolts instead of four. Sure enough, two years later they found their two-bolt design appearing in the brake cylinders of the competitors' cars that they dismantled. At present, auto engineers are focusing particular attention on how rivals go about reducing the weight of their cars in order to placate a public increasingly concerned by the cost of gas guzzlers...
Most middle-road and conservative papers spoke for those who had believed in Agnew's innocence or who had felt that he was being treated unfairly. Said the Atlanta Journal: "It was as if Santa Claus had been revealed as a dirty old man." Detroit News Columnist Pete Waldmeir declared that "Spiro Agnew owes us all an apology. He took our trust and ground it into the dirt. He treated us like fools, thumbed his nose at duty, honor, country...
Despite expectations of waning sales, Detroit has one source of comfort. Small foreign-made cars are losing their price advantage in the U.S. as the impact of two dollar devaluations and raging worldwide inflation drive up their costs. Last week Volkswagen of America raised the average price of Beetles a hefty $325, or 14%; other foreign car makers are certain to follow suit. That happens to fit in nicely with the pricing strategy of the U.S. automakers, who are posting substantial price increases on their import-battling small cars, while adding only marginally to the prices of slower-selling larger...
...medical megalomaniac and his foster son. The new novel, her sixth, concerns lawyers. Marvin Howe is a Nietzschean criminal lawyer-vainglorious, corrupt, wondrously successful, obsessed with his control over people. His opposite number is less obviously a monster. Jack Morrissey defends social outcasts and agitators, the teeming poor of Detroit. He lives simply, but is just as bewitched by power as Howe...