Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Paul Williams, 34, soulful baritone and original member of the Temptations (/IWant a Love I Can See, For Once in My Life); apparently by his own hand, of a gunshot wound; in Detroit. Williams began recording for Motown in the 1950s with a group called the Primes, whose female counterpart, the Primettes, later became the Supremes. After leaving the Temptations in 1971 for medical reasons, he acted as the group's choreographer...
Second, I was from the Midwest, and the nouveau riche out there have a notion of high-falutin' Harvard. At Detroit cocktail parties when someone drops the name, a shock of respect invariably registers on the listener's face. Second strike--I suffered from a feeling of cultural inferiority...
Others of the poor are in equally bad shape, and some institutions that once succored them are unable to keep doing so. The Mother Waddles Perpetual Mission in Detroit, where a poor family once could stop in for a nourishing free meal, has exhausted its supplies of canned food, flour and even powdered milk...
Howard Silver, a Detroit attorney who is chairing the conference, said Sunday that the members of the Senate Select Watergate committee were good examples of what he described as lawyers who reverted to mediocre techniques after long periods away from active trial practise...
...Perfect Master had come to Detroit to sow peace, love and truth. What he reaped was a pie in the face. In town to accept a testimonial resolution, Guru Maharaj Ji, the 15-year-old Indian religious leader, was struck with a shaving-cream pie hurled by a bearded ill-wisher. The pie thrower, who had concealed his missile beneath a box of flowers, said the guru was on an ego trip and "I wanted to show he was mortal." Unfortunately not quick enough to turn his cheek, the guru did give his attacker his forgiveness blessing...