Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When you drive into Detroit from the South on Interstate 75, the whole city seems to belong to Ford. You do, of course, see other things--there's G.M.'s Fisher Body plant, and a big General Tire sign which informs you that 5,187,640 cars have rolled off the assembly lines of the Motor City, and informs you every second or so that another car has come off. Still, it's Ford that hits you hardest, and the biggest Ford area of all is River Rouge...
...Modern Living story last year on a Detroit-area phenomenon-the playing of tunes on pushbutton telephones-spread the fad across the nation and resulted in the publication by the Los Angeles firm, Price/Stern/Sloan, of The Pushbutton Telephone Songbook, which gives instructions for calling friends and playing for them such pushbutton tunes as Flow Gently, Sweet Afton and Strangers in the Night...
...thirsty) engines. For $300, Custom-glass, Inc., of Costa Mesa, Calif., will even convert a Ford Pinto into a "Mini Mark IV" Continental by revamping its rear end and giving it a nose bob. Why go to all that bother to doll up a compact with all the frills? Detroit's backseat psychologists have this explanation: the U.S. consumer figures that buying a small car makes sense both economically and ecologically, but he does not want his neighbors to think that he is trying too hard to save a buck
...needed Government aid. Their success, says Black Enterprise Publisher Earl Graves, is evidence that some historic obstacles to black business ownership "have been overcome, [although] others remain maddeningly as barriers to real opportunity." Only twelve of the firms are in the South; most are in New York City, Chicago, Detroit and California...
...least five papers-the Washington Post and Star-News, Providence Journal, Boston Globe, and Detroit News -have reprinted the Times editorial in full. Others have mentioned it. Dean Mills of the Baltimore Sun's Washington bureau wrote a lengthy piece about the difficulties of conducting a successful prosecution in an atmosphere of supercharged publicity. In it he quoted Paul C. Reardon, an expert on pretrial publicity, who condemned the circulation of "hearsay on hearsay, statements in which people are being damned two or three removes away...