Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...people in the suburbs of Detroit even scheduled a prematch mixed doubles, big enough for full front page coverage in the society sections of the News and Free Press. And the ladies labored weeks of painful planning -- passing hour after hour of busy time killing time licking stamps and addressing invitations and stamping envelopes. And they talked away more busy time worrying about what was to be eaten and whose private court to use and calling all the lucky ladies of the private courts to secure them for the tournament. And in between all the licking and stamping and talking...
...while you are factually correct when you say that the Virgin Islands has "a homicide rate higher than that of New York City," it is gratuitous and unfair to cite New York for that tragic comparison. The fact is that among the nation's major cities, Detroit, Washington, St. Louis, New Orleans, Cleveland, Baltimore, Chicago, Memphis, San Antonio, Dallas, Houston and Phila delphia all have 1973 homicide rates higher than New York...
...being made by some candidates, such as Democrat Brendan Byrne in his campaign against Republican Charles Sandman Jr. for Governor of New Jersey. But, for the most part, the issues are ones that have become all too familiar in recent years: taxes, crime and race. Last week voters in Detroit selected a white career law-enforcement officer, Police Commissioner John F. Nichols, 54, and a black state senator, Coleman Young, 55, as candidates for mayor. Nichols, who campaigns with a pistol tucked in his belt, stressed law-and-order and drew 98% of the white vote. Young, who at times...
...school year began in an atmosphere of tension and confrontation. In many of them money had replaced race as the hard issue. In Providence, R.I., only one of the city's 1,350 teachers showed up for work and 23,000 students were told to stay home. In Detroit, teachers picketed as supervisors and administrators tried to keep schools open for 280,000 pupils. More than 20,000 San Francisco pupils were left to make their own way to school when 230 bus drivers went on strike. And in Memphis, it took a federal court order...
...preliminary indication that Guinier will not long continue in his capacity as chairman came when the Committee to Review The Department of Afro-American Studies, chaired by Wade McCree, a judge in Detroit, Mich., issued its report to the Faculty in October 1972. Recommendation IIIa of the report was: "The chairmanship of the Department should be on a rotating basis every three or four years in accordance with Harvard practice." The upcoming academic year will be Guinier's fourth as Afro's chairman...