Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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ELLEN SAUNDERS Detroit...
Never before have U.S. automakers been so much on the defensive-or in such deep trouble. Testifying before officials of the Environmental Protection Agency in Washington last week, executives of General Motors, Ford, Chrysler and American Motors stated that their vehicles could not meet the strict-and, Detroit says, unrealistic -standards for exhaust emissions set by Congress in the Clean Air Act of 1970. Each of the companies asked for more time-at least one year-to produce cleaner cars...
...Clean Air Act now leaves it up to William D. Ruckelshaus, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, to decide what to do. If he finds that a break for Detroit is essential to the public interest, he must grant the extension. If he believes that the automakers are shirking, he must deny it-thereby possibly shutting down the nation's mightiest industry until it can make the clean cars. Adding drama to the decision making is the fact that Ruckelshaus turned down a similar request for more time last year. He held last week's hearings only because...
...anything actually settled by the costliest strike in U.S. history? Not much, says the author, a Pulitzer-prize-winning journalist who helped cover the strike for the Detroit Free Press. The union won an unlimited cost-of-living escalator clause; but the growing sense of futility attached to assembly-line work-psychologically at least, the real issue of the strike-was barely confronted. The settlement mostly dealt with added pay, a little more vacation, and slightly earlier retirement. Only a year later, worker discontent exploded again at Chevrolet's highly mechanized Vega plant in Lordstown, Ohio...
Penn's Brooke Makler, fencing foil this year instead of epee, wrested the individual foil title away from two-year NCAA champion Ty Simmons from the University of Detroit. Maker went undefeated in the three days of competition...